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make it easier for people who just want to get rid of 'git gc --auto'

Give a direct hint to those who feel highly annoyed by the auto gc
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nicolas Pitre 17 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-gc.txt

@ -19,8 +19,15 @@ created from prior invocations of linkgit:git-add[1]. @@ -19,8 +19,15 @@ created from prior invocations of linkgit: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.
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
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