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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-17 00:39:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-17 23:12:15 -0700 |
| commit | e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 (patch) | |
| tree | c795029c5b03008cfe4addcceaaaed9fd458e6fd /Documentation/git-gc.txt | |
| parent | caf9de2f46471dc25180bf519c07537c00a68dda (diff) | |
| download | git-e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395.tar.gz | |
git-gc --auto: add documentation.
This documents the auto-packing of loose objects performed by
git-gc --auto.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-gc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index c7742ca963..40c1ce4a21 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 ------------- |