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[PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: default --aggressive window is 250, not 10

From
Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Sep 28, 2009, 14:56 UTC
Message-ID
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From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>

The default --aggressive window has been 250 since 1c192f34 "gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive", released in git v1.6.3.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
---
 Documentation/git-gc.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index dcac8c8..1f6df6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in
 the repository when the --aggressive option is specified.  The larger
 the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression.  See
 the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for
-more details.  This defaults to 10.
+more details.  This defaults to 250.
 
 The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old
 the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned.  The
-- 
1.6.4.3
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  1. Documentation/git-gc.txt: default --aggressive window is 250, not 10Brandon Casey, Sep 28, 2009

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