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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-gc' [--prune]
+'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ OPTIONS
repository at the same time (e.g. never use this option
in a cron script).
+--aggressive::
+ Usually 'git-gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk
+ space utilization and performance. This option will cause
+ git-gc to more aggressive 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 sporadically; every
+ few hundred changesets or so.
Configuration
-------------
@@ -67,6 +74,13 @@ The optional configuration variable 'gc.packrefs' determines if
is not run in bare repositories by default, to allow older dumb-transport
clients fetch from the repository, but this will change in the future.
+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 gitlink:git-repack[1] for
+more details. This defaults to 10.
+
See Also
--------
gitlink:git-prune[1]