From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:14:36 GMT Subject: Re: auto gc again Message-ID: <20080319211436.GC17940@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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