From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:26:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification
Message-ID: <20071019012608.GA6403@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071019012430.GT14735@spearce.org>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:24:30PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> I think what you have is many times better.  It doesn't tell the
> user that they can prevent having this activate at the wrong time
> by just running git-gc every so often, but if the message (and
> the subsequent packing itself) is annoying they'll read the manual
> entry and hopefully figure that out on their own.

Yes, I tried many wordings of "this is annoying and you want to avoid
it," but explaining the situation takes way too much time for such a
commonly seen message. And I think some people will actually prefer it
that way.

BTW, the git-gc manpage needs some cleanup. Patches to follow.

-Peff