From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:28:09 GMT Subject: Re: auto gc Message-ID: <20071115082808.GD638@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20071115082004.GL14735@spearce.org> On Thu, Nov 15 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Jens Axboe 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