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Re: auto gc again

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JAJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2008, 21:14 UTC
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<20080319211436.GC17940@kernel.dk>
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0803192121090.3983@racer.site>
On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > But you never answer the question on whether you really consider any 
> > form of autopacking or auto gc sane? Next time some other limit is added 
> > for auto gc, it'll be annoying once more.
> 
> The problem is: if people do not bother to "git gc" their repositories, 
> git operations get slow.  We just had enough of that, and decided to "git 
> gc" automatically for people who did not know about it, or were to lazy 
> and then complained about git for being slow.

Sorry I disagree, it's policy and that is usually a bad thing. In this case it definitely is.

-- 
Jens Axboe
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Message 8 of 30 in “auto gc again”
  1. Jens AxboeMar 18, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsMar 18, 2008
  3. Jens AxboeMar 18, 2008
  4. Jens AxboeMar 18, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsMar 18, 2008
  6. Jens AxboeMar 18, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2008
  8. Jens AxboeMar 19, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2008
  10. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  11. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  12. Jens AxboeMar 19, 2008
  13. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  14. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2008
  16. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  17. Brandon CaseyMar 19, 2008
  18. builtin-gc.c: allow disabling all auto-gc'ing by assigning 0 to gc.autoBrandon Casey, Mar 19, 2008
  19. Teemu LikonenMar 20, 2008
  20. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  21. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsMar 19, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  25. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  27. Nicolas PitreMar 20, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2008
  29. Nicolas PitreMar 20, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2008

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