[PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread W. Trevor King
From: W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto: commit e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 Author: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Date: Mon Sep 17 00:39:52 2007 -0700 git-gc --auto: add documentation.

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: From: W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto: commit e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 Author: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Date: Mon Sep 17 00:39:52 2007 -0700

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:36:53AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: I'd rather phrase it like ... may take long, so you would want to run it explicitly from time to time to avoid automatic gc kicking in when it is not convenient for you. Works for me. Removal of this is a good change, though. I

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: I just read through the manual cover to cover, so I have a number of other fixes in the pipe (from which I've already submitted the receive.denyCurrentBranch patch). Wonderful. ... Should I bundle them all into a single series to reduce clutter on

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: I just read through the manual cover to cover, so I have a number of other fixes in the pipe (from which I've already submitted the receive.denyCurrentBranch patch). Wonderful. ... Should I bundle them all into a single series to reduce clutter on

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Javier Tia
+information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. Some +git commands may automatically run linkgit:git-gc[1], so you don't +have to worry about running it manually. However, compressing large +repositories may take some time, so you might want to disable +automatic comression