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

I do not know 100% about the logic of gc.. but to reason this out:

git gc removed extra history junk, compresses extra history, etc. It does nothing with your local copies of files.

The only difference between a bare and normal repo is if you have local copies of files.

So, I think it stands to reason that YES, you should run git gc on a bare repo.

I have never personally ran it, but my repo is pretty small and is still fast.