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README: remove "Keeping git repository disk usage under control" section

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New script utils/index does an automatic call to `git gc --auto` and if
it detects a gc.log file, it runs `git gc --aggressive`.

There shouldn't be any reason for people to have to think about that
aspect. Remove that info from the README and make it lighter weight.

Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
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@ -261,29 +261,6 @@ through a daily cron job.
You can set `$ELIXIR_THREADS` if you want to change the number of threads used by
update.py for indexing (by default the number of CPUs on your system).
== Keeping git repository disk usage under control
As you keep updating your git repositories, you may notice that some can become
considerably bigger than they originally were. This seems to happen when a `gc.log`
file appears in a big repository, apparently causing git's garbage collector (`git gc`)
to fail, and therefore causing the repository to consume disk space at a fast
pace every time new objects are fetched.
When this happens, you can save disk space by packing git directories as follows:
----
cd <bare-repo>
git prune
rm gc.log
git gc --aggressive
----
Actually, a second pass with the above commands will save even more space.
To process multiple git repositories in a loop, you may use the
`utils/pack-repositories` that we are providing, run from the directory
where all repositories are found.
= Building Docker images
Dockerfiles are provided in the `docker/` directory.