From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:32:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags X-Git-Tag: v2.22.0-rc0~54^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf9cd771e1314ad5cd8eaf1d92b7a5fd5e6b734f;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Remove the mention of specific flags from the "gc" documentation, and leave it at describing what we'll do instead. As seen in builtin/gc.c we'll use various repack flags depending on what we detect we need to do, so this isn't always accurate. More importantly, a subsequent change is about to remove all this documentation and replace it with an include of the gc.* docs in git-config(1). By first changing this it's easier to reason about that subsequent change. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index dd22eecc79..c56f4f7cde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -52,14 +52,13 @@ OPTIONS + If the number of loose objects exceeds the value of the `gc.auto` configuration variable, then all loose objects are combined into a -single pack using `git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto` +single pack. Setting the value of `gc.auto` to 0 disables automatic packing of loose objects. + If the number of packs exceeds the value of `gc.autoPackLimit`, then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file or over `gc.bigPackThreshold` limit) -are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of -'git repack'. +are consolidated into a single pack. If the amount of memory is estimated not enough for `git repack` to run smoothly and `gc.bigPackThreshold` is not set, the largest pack will also be excluded (this is the equivalent of running `git gc`