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Re: "disabling bitmap writing, as some objects are not being packed"?

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David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Date
Feb 8, 2017, 19:05 UTC
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On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 09:44 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On second thought, perhaps gc.autoDetach should default to false if
> > there's no tty, since its main point it to stop breaking interactive
> > usage. That would make the server side happy (no tty there).
> 
> Sounds like an idea, but wouldn't that keep the end-user coming over
> the network waiting after accepting a push until the GC completes, I
> wonder.  If an impatient user disconnects, would that end up killing
> an ongoing GC?  etc.

Regardless, it's impolite to keep the user waiting. So, I think we should just not write the "too many unreachable loose objects" message if auto-gc is on. Does that sound OK?

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Message 16 of 21 in “"disabling bitmap writing, as some objects are not being packed"?”
  1. David TurnerDec 16, 2016
  2. Jeff KingDec 16, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2016
  4. Jeff KingDec 16, 2016
  5. David TurnerDec 16, 2016
  6. Jeff KingDec 16, 2016
  7. pack-objects: don't warn about bitmaps on incremental packDavid Turner, Dec 16, 2016
  8. Jeff KingDec 17, 2016
  9. David TurnerDec 19, 2016
  10. Duy NguyenDec 17, 2016
  11. David TurnerFeb 8, 2017
  12. Duy NguyenFeb 8, 2017
  13. David TurnerFeb 8, 2017
  14. Duy NguyenFeb 8, 2017
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2017
  16. David TurnerFeb 8, 2017
  17. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2017
  18. David TurnerFeb 8, 2017
  19. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2017
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2017
  21. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2017

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