From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create 'git gc' to perform common maintenance operations. Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:12:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20061227070541.GA22982@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 27 08:13:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzSyQ-00067o-Cy for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:13:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932963AbWL0HNL (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932965AbWL0HNL (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:13:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:35549 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932963AbWL0HNK (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:13:10 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kBR7D12J020722 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:13:02 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id kBR7CvRL004097; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:13:00 -0800 To: "Shawn O. Pearce" In-Reply-To: <20061227070541.GA22982@spearce.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.658 required=5 tests=AWL,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.107__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.165 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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