From 25ee9731c137d0a24b0f4879eb0b0cce9b77d5b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:55:47 +0100 Subject: gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the commit object just about to be created. Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with --prune, or to call git-prune directly. Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned. Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire , which makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc, with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one). If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be [gc] pruneExpire = 6.months.ago or even "never", if you feel really paranoid. Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op. While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 35824258ca..bfad0e3858 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -590,6 +590,10 @@ gc.packrefs:: at some stage, and setting this to `false` will continue to prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from `git gc`. +gc.pruneexpire:: + When `git gc` is run, it will call `prune --expire 2.weeks.ago`. + Override the grace period with this config variable. + gc.reflogexpire:: `git reflog expire` removes reflog entries older than this time; defaults to 90 days. -- cgit v1.2.3