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diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc b/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc index 0450d74aff..3a1e2a69b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc @@ -126,13 +126,17 @@ loose-objects:: objects that already exist in a pack-file; concurrent Git processes will examine the pack-file for the object data instead of the loose object. Second, it creates a new pack-file (starting with "loose-") - containing a batch of loose objects. The batch size is limited to 50 - thousand objects to prevent the job from taking too long on a - repository with many loose objects. The `gc` task writes unreachable - objects as loose objects to be cleaned up by a later step only if - they are not re-added to a pack-file; for this reason it is not - advisable to enable both the `loose-objects` and `gc` tasks at the - same time. + containing a batch of loose objects. ++ +The batch size defaults to fifty thousand objects to prevent the job from +taking too long on a repository with many loose objects. Use the +`maintenance.loose-objects.batchSize` config option to adjust this size, +including a value of `0` to remove the limit. ++ +The `gc` task writes unreachable objects as loose objects to be cleaned up +by a later step only if they are not re-added to a pack-file; for this +reason it is not advisable to enable both the `loose-objects` and `gc` +tasks at the same time. incremental-repack:: The `incremental-repack` job repacks the object directory @@ -158,6 +162,10 @@ pack-refs:: need to iterate across many references. See linkgit:git-pack-refs[1] for more information. +reflog-expire:: + The `reflog-expire` task deletes any entries in the reflog older than the + expiry threshold. See linkgit:git-reflog[1] for more information. + OPTIONS ------- --auto:: |