From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about
auto:
commit e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 17 00:39:52 2007 -0700
git-gc --auto: add documentation.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I'd also be happy just dropping the whole git-gc section ;).
Documentation/user-manual.txt | 16 ++++++----------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 5077e7c..d14e3c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1562,17 +1562,13 @@ 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.
+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 large
+repositories may take some time, so you might want to disable
+automatic comression and run it explicitly when you are not doing
+other work.
-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.
[[ensuring-reliability]]
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1.8.1.336.g94702dd
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