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| author | Vincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com> | 2020-05-22T16·46+0100 |
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| committer | Vincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com> | 2020-05-22T16·46+0100 |
| commit | 5229c9b232de5bfa959ad6ebbb4c8192ac513352 (patch) | |
| tree | 8539e7e23682cac110900f946f034ae44162cacd /third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt | |
| parent | f2b211131f2347342dde63975b09cf603149f1a3 (diff) | |
| parent | 8518a7a51faaf50f830646d4c3585f51236b9349 (diff) | |
merge(3p/git): Merge git upstream at v2.26.2 r/808
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| -rw-r--r-- | third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 247f765604b0..0c114ad1ca26 100644 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -115,15 +115,14 @@ NOTES ----- 'git gc' tries very hard not to delete objects that are referenced -anywhere in your repository. In -particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set -of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, -remote-tracking branches, refs saved by 'git filter-branch' in -refs/original/, reflogs (which may reference commits in branches -that were later amended or rewound), and anything else in the refs/* namespace. -If you are expecting some objects to be deleted and they aren't, check -all of those locations and decide whether it makes sense in your case to -remove those references. +anywhere in your repository. In particular, it will keep not only +objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also +objects referenced by the index, remote-tracking branches, notes saved +by 'git notes' under refs/notes/, reflogs (which may reference commits +in branches that were later amended or rewound), and anything else in +the refs/* namespace. If you are expecting some objects to be deleted +and they aren't, check all of those locations and decide whether it +makes sense in your case to remove those references. On the other hand, when 'git gc' runs concurrently with another process, there is a risk of it deleting an object that the other process is using |