From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "W. Trevor King" Subject: [PATCH v2 01/15] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vzjzexv8l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Cc: Junio C Hamano , "W. Trevor King" To: Git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 16:12:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4YZT-0000h4-Uv for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:12:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760542Ab3BJPLi (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:11:38 -0500 Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:36322 "EHLO vms173013pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758942Ab3BJPLT (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:11:19 -0500 Received: from odin.tremily.us ([unknown] [72.68.84.219]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MI000FCJFIBJY50@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:11:00 -0600 (CST) Received: by odin.tremily.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5499C879268; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:10:59 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=tremily.us; s=odin; t=1360509059; bh=khhXnty0IWJEwvpWrBEmYg745RCnbrvTvVsleJ/gtDo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:In-Reply-To: References; b=Xf/3tVBrSKIYZFMenI2fm+Jx87DgCgR4AGhmRkB0s75VIksW2u7C9gpY1EZmbaKCw MWBPYzcE3Gu6aIZZj7y+sfVjU0RLjRimwCvJeJNRdHPWryY75xQ6k7EZXtkIC/MN2o Msgen3j1bN/Y/tVU03UFQghhYgQ1nkTY1DJX61+c= X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.4 In-reply-to: In-reply-to: References: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "W. Trevor King" 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 --- 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]] -- 1.8.1.336.g94702dd