The docs have been recommending that users need to run this manually, but that hasn't been needed in practice for a long time. Let's instead have this reflect reality and say that most users don't need to run this manually at all. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-gc.txt | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index a7c1b0f60ed..cc82971022e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -20,13 +20,17 @@ created from prior invocations of 'git add', packing refs, pruning reflog, rerere metadata or stale working trees. May also update ancillary indexes such as the commit-graph. -Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within -each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good -operating performance. +Most users should not have to run this command manually. When common +porcelain operations that create objects are run, such as +linkgit:git-commit[1] and linkgit:git-fetch[1], `git gc --auto` will +be run automatically. -Some git commands may automatically run 'git gc'; see the `--auto` flag -below for details. If you know what you're doing and all you want is to -disable this behavior permanently without further considerations, just do: +You should only need to run `git gc` manually when adding objects to a +repository without regularly running such porcelain commands. Another +use-case is wanting to do a one-off repository optimization. + +If you know what you're doing and all you want is to disable automatic +runs, do: ---------------------- $ git config --global gc.auto 0 -- 2.21.0.360.g471c308f928
