Since 07e7dbf0db (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11) we somewhat confusingly use the same depth under --aggressive as we do by default. As noted in that commit that makes sense, it was wrong to make more depth the default for "aggressive", and thus save disk space at the expense of runtime performance, which is usually the opposite of someone who'd like "aggressive gc" wants. But that's left us with a mostly-redundant configuration variable, so let's clearly note in its documentation that it doesn't change the default. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config/gc.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index 3e7fc052d9..0daa4683f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ gc.aggressiveDepth:: The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults - to 50. + to 50, which is the default for the `--depth` option when + `--aggressive` isn't in use. + See the documentation for the `--depth` option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for more details. @@ -9,7 +10,8 @@ linkgit:git-repack[1] for more details. gc.aggressiveWindow:: The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults - to 250. + to 250, which is a much more aggressive window size than + the default `--window` of 10. + See the documentation for the `--window` option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for more details. -- 2.21.0.360.g471c308f928
