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authorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2019-06-19 16:46:30 +0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-06-19 20:56:44 -0700
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fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotes
In multiple remotes mode, git-fetch is launched for n-1 remotes and the last remote is handled by the current process. Each of these processes will in turn run 'gc' at the end. This is not really a problem because even if multiple 'gc --auto' is run at the same time we still handle it correctly. It does show multiple "auto packing in the background" messages though. And we may waste some resources when gc actually runs because we still do some stuff before checking the lock and moving it to background. So let's try to avoid that. We should only need one 'gc' run after all objects and references are added anyway. Add a new option --no-auto-gc that will be used by those n-1 processes. 'gc --auto' will always run on the main fetch process (*). (*) even if we fetch remotes in parallel at some point in future, this should still be fine because we should "join" all those processes before this step. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
Allow several <repository> and <group> arguments to be
specified. No <refspec>s may be specified.
+--[no-]auto-gc::
+ Run `git gc --auto` at the end to perform garbage collection
+ if needed. This is enabled by default.
+
-p::
--prune::
Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no