From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:37:38 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <20070905073738.GA10570@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90709050021o5cdcc976xd099242aeb70643d@mail.gmail.com>

On 2007-09-05 19:21:29 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> I never followed up on one of your suggestions back in the day --
> that we printed an informational msg along the lines of "you have X
> loose objects, it's about time to repack" after some operations
> (fetch, merge, commit).

git-gui pops up a dialog that says precisely that, and gives you the
choice of repacking right then and there, or skip it.

As for truly automatic repacking after commands such as fetch, it
could probably be a config option (defaulting to "on"). It'd be
important to have "press any key to abort repacking (with no ill
effects)" type funtctionality, though.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle