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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create 'git gc' to perform common maintenance operations.
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:12:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612262312170.4473@woody.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061227070541.GA22982@spearce.org>



On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a
> regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as:
> 
>  * prune
>  * repack -a -d

You should do "repack -a -d" _before_ pruning, because then pruning will 
be much more efficient (thanks to a more efficient repo format).

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-27  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-27  7:05 [PATCH] Create 'git gc' to perform common maintenance operations Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-27  7:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-27  7:17 Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-27  7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-27  7:53   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-27  8:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-27  8:33       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-27  9:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-27 13:11 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-27 18:46   ` Junio C Hamano

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