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Git: automatic clean-up?

In the past, one had to invoke git gc from time to time. I've read now, that latest Git versions should perform the cleanup automatically. Is this correct?

Solution

  • To an extent...

    From the documentation at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html

    Pertaining to git gc --auto....

    With this option, git gc checks whether any housekeeping is required; if not, it exits without performing any work. Some git commands run git gc --auto after performing operations that could create many loose objects.

    So it depends on the commands you are running.