Re: notify alternative to auto gc?

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Jun 30, 2010, 02:27 UTC
Message-ID: <1277864838.23613.18.camel@wilber>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil8sHZrfvHetwzjhOsyprsqrf7-XRS3B8qKH7cs@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 16:26 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:10, Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The git help tells me I can disable it by setting gc.auto to 0, while the mailing list archive tells me I also have to set gc.autopacklimit to 0.  This is fine, but if I do that, I won't know when the repo is in need of cleanup.  Is there any option I can set to instruct it to simply TELL me when it's in need of gc?
> 
> Anything that tells you whether you need to gc would incur much of the
> speed penalty that running gc itself does.

See builtin/gc.c:too_many_loose_objects

Checking that gc is required involves opening one directory (objects/17 IIRC), reading all of the entries in it and counting them. It really doesn't hurt.

Sam