Do I ever need to run git gc on a bare repo?

Question

man git-gc doesn\'t have an obvious answer in it, and I haven\'t had any luck with Google either (although I might have just been using the wrong search terms).

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Answer 1

Some operations run git gc --auto automatically, so there should never be the need to run git gc, git should take care of this by itself.

Contrary to what bwawok said, there actually is (or might be) a difference between your local repo and that bare one: What operations you do with it. For example dangling objects can be created by rebasing, but it may be possible that you never rebase the bare repo, so maybe you don't ever need to remove them (because there are never any). And thus you may not need to use git gc that often. But then again, like I said, git should take care of this automatically.