X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-gc.txt;h=bc1658434a61bdba41699859f103a3c8e0802d95;hb=726f852b0ed7e03e88c419a9996c3815911c9db1;hp=e37758ad15823c81d18ccc06fa4dc8775744cdcd;hpb=b4d2b04c9b6dc42c0bcf0513b9d8f731ec26db82;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index e37758ad1..bc1658434 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereunresolved' indicates
 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
 --------