From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:03:36 +0000 (-0500) Subject: user-manual: update git-gc discussion X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc3~3^2~16 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17217090cf92e094f711359d92196e8129e3281c;p=git.git user-manual: update git-gc discussion It appears git-gc will no longer prune automatically, so we don't need to tell people not to do other stuff while running it. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" --- diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 6c858aadd..30adc72dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1447,16 +1447,14 @@ On large repositories, git depends on compression to keep the history information from taking up to much space on disk or in memory. This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you -should occasionally run +should occasionally run gitlink:git-gc[1]: ------------------------------------------------- $ git gc ------------------------------------------------- -to recompress the archive and to prune any commits which are no -longer referred to anywhere. This can be very time-consuming, and -you should not modify the repository while it is working, so you -should run it while you are not working. +to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so +you may prefer to run git-gc when you are not doing other work. Sharing development with others ===============================