# [PATCH 0/8] Updated git-gc --auto series.

1 messages from 2007-09-17 to 2007-09-17. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9887

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-09-17 08:43

Subject: [PATCH 0/8] Updated git-gc --auto series.
Message-ID: <11900186052005-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11900186052005-git-send-email-gitster%40pobox.com

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An updated series of "git-gc --auto", on top of 'next',
consisting of 8 patches, will follow this message.

Differences from the previous round are:

 - Earlier if you have too many unreachable loose objects,
   automated gc would have tried to "repack -d -l" which would
   not improve the situation at all every time it was run.  It
   now at least warns upon such a situation;

 - pack-objects learned --keep-unreachable option which helps
   "repack -a -d" not to lose packed but unreachable objects
   while repacking existing packs into a new pack;

 - repack learned -A option which is similar to -a but gives
   --keep-unreachable to underlying pack-objects;

 - "git-gc --auto" runs "git-repack -A -d -l" when there are too
   many packs in the repository;

 - These changes are documented ;-)

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