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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fsck.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-prune.txt | 20 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index f16cb9861..4cc26fb74 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ OPTIONS An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace. + If no objects are given, git-fsck defaults to using the -index file and all SHA1 references in .git/refs/* as heads. +index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless +--no-reflogs is given) as heads. --unreachable:: Print out objects that exist but that aren't readable from any diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index f151cff5d..f92bb8cfa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- +NOTE: In most cases, users should run linkgit:git-gc[1], which calls +git-prune. See the section "NOTES", below. + This runs `git-fsck --unreachable` using all the refs available in `$GIT_DIR/refs`, optionally with additional set of objects specified on the command line, and prunes all @@ -50,6 +53,23 @@ borrows from your repository via its $ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git-rev-parse --all)) ------------ +Notes +----- + +In most cases, users will not need to call git-prune directly, but +should instead call linkgit:git-gc[1], which handles pruning along with +many other housekeeping tasks. + +For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see +git-fsck's --unreachable option. + +See Also +-------- + +linkgit:git-fsck[1], +linkgit:git-gc[1], +linkgit:git-reflog[1] + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |