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--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
kept. This defaults to 15 days.
+The optional configuration variable 'gc.packrefs' determines if
+`git gc` runs `git-pack-refs`. Without the configuration, `git-pack-refs`
+is not run in bare repositories by default, to allow older dumb-transport
+clients fetch from the repository, but this will change in the future.
See Also
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