[PATCH v2 01/15] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing
From: W. Trevor King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:06
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: "W. Trevor King" <redacted> This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto (e9831e8, git-gc --auto: add documentation, 2007-09-17). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <redacted> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 5077e7c..222545b 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -1562,17 +1562,11 @@ Ensuring good performance ------------------------- On large repositories, Git depends on compression to keep the history -information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. - -This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you -should occasionally run linkgit:git-gc[1]: - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git gc -------------------------------------------------- - -to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so -you may prefer to run `git gc` when you are not doing other work. +information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. Some +git commands may automatically run linkgit:git-gc[1], so you don't +have to worry about running it manually. However, compressing a large +repository may take a while, so you may want to call `gc` explicitly +to avoid automatic compression kicking in when it is not convenient. [[ensuring-reliability]]
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