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GIT-GC(1)			  Git Manual			     GIT-GC(1)

NAME
       git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository

SYNOPSIS
       git-gc [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet]

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(1).

       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.

       --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 git-repack(1) for more
       details. This defaults to 10.

       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(1) in
       refs/original/, or reflogs (which may references 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
       git-prune(1) git-reflog(1) git-repack(1) git-rerere(1)

AUTHOR
       Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

GIT
       Part of the git(7) suite

Git 1.5.5.2			  10/21/2008			     GIT-GC(1)
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