gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags

Remove the mention of specific flags from the "gc" documentation, and
leave it at describing what we'll do instead. As seen in builtin/gc.c
we'll use various repack flags depending on what we detect we need to
do, so this isn't always accurate.

More importantly, a subsequent change is about to remove all this
documentation and replace it with an include of the gc.* docs in
git-config(1). By first changing this it's easier to reason about that
subsequent change.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2019-03-22 10:32:33 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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If the number of loose objects exceeds the value of the `gc.auto`
configuration variable, then all loose objects are combined into a
single pack using `git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto`
single pack. Setting the value of `gc.auto`
to 0 disables automatic packing of loose objects.
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If the number of packs exceeds the value of `gc.autoPackLimit`,
then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file
or over `gc.bigPackThreshold` limit)
are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of
'git repack'.
are consolidated into a single pack.
If the amount of memory is estimated not enough for `git repack` to
run smoothly and `gc.bigPackThreshold` is not set, the largest
pack will also be excluded (this is the equivalent of running `git gc`