From: W. Trevor King Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:10:27 +0000 (-0500) Subject: user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing X-Git-Tag: v1.8.1.4~8 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/901fd180c9d19025bafefc34e131125628169bdd user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 32dfe8ab63..4cb8325260 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1561,18 +1561,12 @@ $ git stash pop 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. +On large repositories, Git depends on compression to keep the history +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]]