[PATCH,RFC] make it easier for people who just want to get rid of 'git gc --auto'
From: Nicolas Pitre <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:24
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Give a direct hint to those who feel highly annoyed by the auto gc behavior. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 229a7c9..eb3a1f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt@@ -19,8 +19,16 @@ created from prior invocations of linkgit:git-add[1]. Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good -operating performance. Some git commands may automatically run -`git-gc`; see the `--auto` flag below for details. +operating performance. + +Some git commands may automatically run `git-gc`; see the `--auto` flag +below for details. If you know what you're doing and all you want is to +disable this behavior permanently without further considerations, just do: + +---------------------- +$ git config --global gc.auto 0 +$ git config --global gc.autopacklimit 0 +---------------------- OPTIONS -------