From 619310571002fc74e428824bd603604d1055b61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:02:52 -0400
Subject: Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added

Auto-optimisation is enabled by default.  It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
---
 doc/manual/conf-file.xml | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/manual/conf-file.xml')

diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index 1b19e56b5714..c095a001c169 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -337,7 +337,20 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
     <literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>
-    
+
+  
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>auto-optimise-store</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    Nix automatically detects files in the store that have identical
+    contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy.
+    This saves disk space.  If set to <literal>false</literal>, you
+    can still run <command>nix-store --optimise</command> to get rid
+    of duplicate files.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
 </variablelist>
 
 </para>
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