From 17217090cf92e094f711359d92196e8129e3281c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:03:36 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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" --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 6c858aaddc..30adc72dce 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 ===============================