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diff --git a/git-gc.txt b/git-gc.txt index bc16584..4ac839f 100644 --- a/git-gc.txt +++ b/git-gc.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-gc' [--prune] +'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ repository at the same time (e.g. never use this option in a cron script). +--aggressive:: + Usually 'git-gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk + space utilization and performance. This option will cause + git-gc to more aggressive optimize the repository at the expense + of taking much more time. The effects of this optimization are + persistent, so this option only needs to be sporadically; every + few hundred changesets or so. Configuration ------------- @@ -67,6 +74,13 @@ 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. +The optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveWindow' controls how +much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in +the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger +the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See +the documentation for the --window' option in gitlink:git-repack[1] for +more details. This defaults to 10. + See Also -------- gitlink:git-prune[1]
