Git repository maintenanceEdit

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In order to keep repository size and performance at their best I set up a simple cron job to run git gc (see man git-gc for more information) once per month.

The crontab entry looks like this:

MAILTO="example@example.com"
@monthly	/path/to/tools/gc-git-repos.sh

And the script is basically:

#
# Configuration
#

PRIVATE_REPOS="/path/to/private"
PUBLIC_REPOS="/path/to/public"

#
# Functions
#

do_gc()
{
  for REPO in $1/*.git; do
    cd $REPO &&
    git-gc &&
    cd -
  done
}

#
# Main
#

set -e

do_gc "${PRIVATE_REPOS}"
do_gc "${PUBLIC_REPOS}"