| git-gc(1) |
| ========= |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository |
| |
| |
| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| 'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, |
| such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase |
| performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been |
| created from prior invocations of 'git add'. |
| |
| Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within |
| each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good |
| operating performance. |
| |
| Some git commands may automatically run 'git gc'; see the `--auto` flag |
| below for details. If you know what you're doing and all you want is to |
| disable this behavior permanently without further considerations, just do: |
| |
| ---------------------- |
| $ git config --global gc.auto 0 |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| OPTIONS |
| ------- |
| |
| --aggressive:: |
| Usually 'git gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk |
| space utilization and performance. This option will cause |
| 'git gc' to more aggressively 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 used occasionally; every |
| few hundred changesets or so. |
| |
| --auto:: |
| With this option, 'git gc' checks whether any housekeeping is |
| required; if not, it exits without performing any work. |
| Some git commands run `git gc --auto` after performing |
| operations that could create many loose objects. |
| + |
| Housekeeping is required if there are too many loose objects or |
| too many packs in the repository. If the number of loose objects |
| exceeds the value of the `gc.auto` configuration variable, then |
| all loose objects are combined into a single pack using |
| `git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto` to 0 |
| disables automatic packing of loose objects. |
| + |
| If the number of packs exceeds the value of `gc.autopacklimit`, |
| then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file) |
| are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of |
| 'git repack'. Setting `gc.autopacklimit` to 0 disables |
| automatic consolidation of packs. |
| |
| --prune=<date>:: |
| Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, |
| overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This |
| option is on by default. |
| |
| --no-prune:: |
| Do not prune any loose objects. |
| |
| --quiet:: |
| Suppress all progress reports. |
| |
| Configuration |
| ------------- |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpire' can be |
| set to indicate how long historical entries within each branch's |
| reflog should remain available in this repository. The setting is |
| expressed as a length of time, for example '90 days' or '3 months'. |
| It defaults to '90 days'. |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpireUnreachable' |
| can be set to indicate how long historical reflog entries which |
| are not part of the current branch should remain available in |
| this repository. These types of entries are generally created as |
| a result of using `git commit \--amend` or `git rebase` and are the |
| commits prior to the amend or rebase occurring. Since these changes |
| are not part of the current project most users will want to expire |
| them sooner. This option defaults to '30 days'. |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereresolved' indicates |
| how long records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are |
| kept. This defaults to 60 days. |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereunresolved' indicates |
| how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are |
| kept. This defaults to 15 days. |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.packrefs' determines if |
| 'git gc' runs 'git pack-refs'. This can be set to "nobare" to enable |
| it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. |
| This defaults to true. |
| |
| 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 linkgit:git-repack[1] for |
| more details. This defaults to 250. |
| |
| The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old |
| the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The |
| default is "2 weeks ago". |
| |
| |
| Notes |
| ----- |
| |
| 'git gc' tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In |
| particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set |
| of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote |
| tracking branches, refs saved by 'git filter-branch' in |
| refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches |
| that were later amended or rewound). |
| |
| If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check |
| all of those locations and decide whether it makes sense in your case to |
| remove those references. |
| |
| SEE ALSO |
| -------- |
| linkgit:git-prune[1] |
| linkgit:git-reflog[1] |
| linkgit:git-repack[1] |
| linkgit:git-rerere[1] |
| |
| Author |
| ------ |
| Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> |
| |
| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |
