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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-17 00:55:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-17 23:12:16 -0700 |
| commit | 17815501a8f95c080891acd9537514adfe17c80e (patch) | |
| tree | 24a58abb997d75c363997883ebde4032ea0ebbc7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 95143f9e686dee144e0ff4a20190b923e20e1b64 (diff) | |
| download | git-17815501a8f95c080891acd9537514adfe17c80e.tar.gz | |
git-gc --auto: run "repack -A -d -l" as necessary.
This teaches "git-gc --auto" to consolidate many packs into one
without losing unreachable objects in them by using "repack -A"
when there are too many packfiles that are not marked with *.keep
in the repository. gc.autopacklimit configuration can be used
to set the maximum number of packs a repository is allowed to
have before this mechanism kicks in.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6b6553d9da..b0390f82b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -446,6 +446,12 @@ gc.auto:: light-weight garbage collection from time to time. Setting this to 0 disables it. +gc.autopacklimit:: + When there are more than this many packs that are not + marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc + --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. Setting + this to 0 disables this. + 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 40c1ce4a21..b9d5660eac 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -47,10 +47,15 @@ OPTIONS 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 + The threshold for loose objects 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. + Additionally, when there are too many packs are present, + they are consolidated into one larger pack by running + the `git-repack` command with `-A` option. The + threshold for number of packs is set with + `gc.autopacklimit` configuration variable. Configuration ------------- |