From e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:39:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] git-gc --auto: add documentation. This documents the auto-packing of loose objects performed by git-gc --auto. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/git-gc.txt | 11 ++++++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 866e0534b..6b6553d9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -439,6 +439,13 @@ gc.aggressiveWindow:: algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults to 10. +gc.auto:: + When there are approximately more than this many loose + objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them. + Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a + light-weight garbage collection from time to time. Setting + this to 0 disables it. + gc.packrefs:: `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index c7742ca96..40c1ce4a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] +'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] [--auto] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ OPTIONS persistent, so this option only needs to be used occasionally; every few hundred changesets or so. +--auto:: + With this option, `git gc` checks if there are too many + loose objects in the repository and runs + gitlink:git-repack[1] with `-d -l` option to pack them. + The threshold is set with `gc.auto` configuration + variable, and can be disabled by setting it to 0. Some + Porcelain commands use this after they perform operation + that could create many loose objects automatically. + Configuration ------------- -- 2.26.2