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Re: [PATCH] Add commands that git-gc runs underneath

From
TCTom Clarke <tom@u2i.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2007, 12:15 UTC
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<550f9510708300515s2069d680y1a02d95d517ec705@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/30/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I have nothing against listing the commands per se.  But the man page is
> too exposed IMHO.  (Or would you like to add the original shell script to
> git-log's man page, too?)

Perhaps the man pages for the lower level commands should reference git-gc as the command that - unless you have special circumstances - you probably want. As a new git user it was only reading this thread that made me realise that git-gc is the command I want most of the time - a number of the tutorials I had read referenced the low level commands, and I didn't realise they had been superseded for normal use.

-Tom
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Message 6 of 13 in “Add commands that git-gc runs underneath”
  1. Add commands that git-gc runs underneathJari Aalto, Aug 30, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2007
  3. Andreas EricssonAug 30, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonAug 30, 2007
  6. Tom ClarkeAug 30, 2007
  7. Theodore TsoAug 30, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2007
  9. Andreas EricssonAug 31, 2007
  10. David KastrupAug 31, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007
  12. David KastrupAug 31, 2007
  13. David KastrupAug 30, 2007

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