Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20071018180843.GA11624@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <47176AB9.7010409@midwinter.com>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:16:25AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:

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>> installed in the first place.  Perhaps a message more along the lines of 
>> "To avoid this, run "git gc" manually on a regular basis.  See 'git help 
>> gc' for more information."
>
> That's a good point. Jeff / Shawn, do you agree with that? I'll come up with 
> an alternate patch if so.

Yes, that seems reasonable. I think the most important thing is that they realize that "git-gc" is responsible for what is happening. That should allow them to find more information in the documentation if they want (and Brian's suggestion points directly to the documentation, which is great).

-Peff

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