Re: [PATCH 2/2] Run garbage collection with loose object pruning after svn dcommit

From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20071005164912.GE4797@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To: <47066255.6080500@midwinter.com>

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:12:05AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> Peter Baumann wrote:
>> I don't like the automatic prune. What if someone has other objects in
>> there which shouldn't be pruned? Making git svn dcommit doing the prune
>> would be at least suprising, because how is one supposed to know that
>> doing a commit into svn will prune all your precious objects?
>>   
>
> "git commit" already does garbage collection, so we've already set a 
> precedent for a commit operation also doing some cleanup at the end. 
> However, you're correct that this cleanup behavior (and the way to turn it 
> off) should be documented so that there's some way to know about it. Doc 
> patch forthcoming.
>

That's new to me. Glancing over git-commit.sh, I could only find a 'git-gc --auto', but no prune. I am not against doing a 'git gc --auto', but I am against the --prune, because this could make shared repositories unfunctional.

-Peter