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diff --git a/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc b/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc index b2bacdc822..d0c38f03fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc @@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ The possible strategies are: strategy for scheduled maintenance. * `gc`: This strategy runs the `gc` task. This is the default strategy for manual maintenance. +* `geometric`: This strategy performs geometric repacking of packfiles and + keeps auxiliary data structures up-to-date. The strategy expires data in the + reflog and removes worktrees that cannot be located anymore. When the + geometric repacking strategy would decide to do an all-into-one repack, then + the strategy generates a cruft pack for all unreachable objects. Objects that + are already part of a cruft pack will be expired. ++ +This repacking strategy is a full replacement for the `gc` strategy and is +recommended for large repositories. * `incremental`: This setting optimizes for performing small maintenance activities that do not delete any data. This does not schedule the `gc` task, but runs the `prefetch` and `commit-graph` tasks hourly, the |