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user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing 

This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about
auto (e9831e8, git-gc --auto: add documentation, 2007-09-17).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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W. Trevor King 2013-02-10 10:10:27 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -1561,18 +1561,12 @@ $ git stash pop
Ensuring good performance Ensuring good performance
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On large repositories, git depends on compression to keep the history On large repositories, Git depends on compression to keep the history
information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. 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
This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you have to worry about running it manually. However, compressing a large
should occasionally run linkgit:git-gc[1]: repository may take a while, so you may want to call `gc` explicitly

to avoid automatic compression kicking in when it is not convenient.
-------------------------------------------------
$ git gc
-------------------------------------------------

to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so
you may prefer to run `git gc` when you are not doing other work.




[[ensuring-reliability]] [[ensuring-reliability]]