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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Optimizing repository speed
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:14:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070219151410.GG25490@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17881.46642.843674.49482@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:37:38AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> As part of our conversion to git 1.5, I would like to ensure that
> our code repository does not get crufty and slow.  Currently, I have
> a cron job that runs each morning that does a 'git repack -a -d'.
> 
> I know there is 'git-gc', and it appears to do all sorts of good
> things.  Can I simply replace my call to 'git repack -d -a' with 'git
> gc', or is there anything else I might want to do?

git-gc is a strict superset of git repack -a -d.  Specifically, what
it does is:

git-pack-refs --prune
git-reflog expire --al 
git-repack -a -d -l
git-rerere gc

It will also through in a git-prune if you do add --prune to the
git-gc call, but you really don't want to run that out of a cron job.

Regards,

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 15:14 UTC|newest]

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2007-02-19 14:37 Optimizing repository speed Bill Lear
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