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Re: auto gc again

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JAJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2008, 17:31 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 20 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > gc.auto covering everything is good enough for me, GIT_GC_AUTO
> > environment variable would be better because of the way that I work. But
> > I can get by knowing that the gc.auto thing will at least only bite me
> > once per tree. And perhaps just wrap git clone in one of my scripts
> > that'll then do the gc.auto thing automatically.
> 
> You missed --global part of the suggestion, perhaps?

I did indeed, --global does exactly what I meant with GIT_GC_AUTO. Thanks!

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Jens Axboe
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Message 16 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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