From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:01:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc"
Message-ID: <xmqqtvfvphv6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190321205054.17109-2-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> +When common porcelain operations that creates objects are run, they

"operations that create objects are run"?

> +will check whether the repository has grown substantially since the
> +last maintenance, and if so run `git gc` automatically. See `gc.auto`
> +below for how to disable this behavior.
> +
> +Running `git gc` manually should only be needed when adding objects to
> +a repository without regularly running such porcelain commands, to do
> +a one-off repository optimization, or e.g. to clean up a suboptimal
> +mass-import. See the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in
> +linkgit:git-fast-import[1] for more details on the import case.
>  
>  OPTIONS
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