Maintenance

This command provides a way to add cronjobs that run daily, hourly and weekly maintenance tasks on your git repositories.

This will update the .git/config file in the repository with the following configuration:

[maintenance]
	auto = false
	strategy = incremental

According to the man page:

The incremental strategy uses the following schedule for each maintenance task:

   •   gc: disabled.

   •   commit-graph: hourly.

   •   prefetch: hourly.

   •   loose-objects: daily.

   •   incremental-repack: daily.

Each task will do something to make git faster in the repo. Further explanation for these tasks (gc, commit-graph, etc.) can be found in the man page.

Why is gc disabled?

gc: Clean up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. "GC" stands

for "garbage collection," but this task performs many smaller tasks. This

task can be expensive for large repositories, as it repacks all Git objects

into a single pack-file. It can also be disruptive in some situations, as it

deletes stale data. See git-gc(1) for more details on garbage collection in

Git.