Re: auto gc

From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2007, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20071115082808.GD638@kernel.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20071115082004.GL14735@spearce.org>

On Thu, Nov 15 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also
> > run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.
> > Generating pack...
> > [...]
> > 
> > This is extremely annoying behaviour! If I'm on battery or just in a bit
> > of a hurry, I defeinitely don't want git second guessing me and deciding
> > that it's time to run git gc.
> > 
> > I'd suggest just printing a hint that running git gc would increase
> > performance, doing it automatically is definitely bad style (even more
> > so when then yet again changed git refs layout even breaks old scripts,
> > when git gc has run).
> 
> Set the following and it won't run automatically anymore for you:
> 
> 	git config --global gc.auto 0
> 	git config --global gc.autopacklimit 0

OK

> More recently this message has been changed to:
> 
>   Packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also
>   run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.

Great, that's a lot more appropriate in my opinion. I'll just update to a later git.

Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe