git-maintenance Command Examples

Run tasks to optimize Git repository data. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance.

• Register the current repository in the user's list of repositories to daily have maintenance run:

git maintenance register

• Start running maintenance on the current repository:

git maintenance start

• Halt the background maintenance schedule for the current repository:

git maintenance stop

• Remove the current repository from the user's maintenance repository list:

git maintenance unregister

• Run a specific maintenance task on the current repository:

git maintenance run --task={{commit-graph|gc|incremental-repack|loose-objects|pack-refs|prefetch}}