# [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: default --aggressive window is 250, not 10 1 messages from 2009-09-28 to 2009-09-28. Participants: Brandon Casey. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21081 ## Brandon Casey, 2009-09-28 14:56 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: default --aggressive window is 250, not 10 Message-ID: <3OUjPFzCqTwhiqxi-6df9MkmWbE5Q1i5ydAmhmm0QaaYK9pmBl3RELw7IGRAcPnWtwMJL3CLrGw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3OUjPFzCqTwhiqxi-6df9MkmWbE5Q1i5ydAmhmm0QaaYK9pmBl3RELw7IGRAcPnWtwMJL3CLrGw%40cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil ``` From: Brandon Casey 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 --- 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 ```