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user-manual: update git-gc discussion

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It appears git-gc will no longer prune automatically, so we don't
need to tell people not to do other stuff while running it.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@ -1447,16 +1447,14 @@ On large repositories, git depends on compression to keep the history
information from taking up to much space on disk or in memory.
This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you
should occasionally run
should occasionally run gitlink:git-gc[1]:
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$ git gc
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to recompress the archive and to prune any commits which are no
longer referred to anywhere. This can be very time-consuming, and
you should not modify the repository while it is working, so you
should run it while you are not working.
to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so
you may prefer to run git-gc when you are not doing other work.
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