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How often should you use git-gc?
The manual page simply says:
Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good operating performance.
Are there some commands to get some object counts to find out whether it’s time to gc?
It depends mostly on how much the repository is used. With one user checking in once a day and a branch/merge/etc operation once a week you probably don’t need to run it more than once a year.
With several dozen developers working on several dozen projects each checking in 2-3 times a day, you might want to run it nightly.
It won’t hurt to run it more frequently than needed, though.
What I’d do is run it now, then a week from now take a measurement of disk utilization, run it again, and measure disk utilization again. If it drops 5% in size, then run it once a week. If it drops more, then run it more frequently. If it drops less, then run it less frequently.