Re: [BUG] git-gui loose object warning every hour

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20080620003216.GR11793@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <g3et71$j8k$1@ger.gmane.org>

Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@sbox.tugraz.at> wrote:

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> New git-gui does not honor gc.auto=0 setting for his loose object
> warning.
> 
> The loose object warning from git-gui poped up 3 times in the last 4
> hours (i've gc'ed the repo every time).

This isn't a per-hour warning. What's happening is there are loose objects which git-gc has not pruned away. Try running git-prune in the repository to decrease the loose object count.

> I've already set gc.auto=0 so i do _NOT_ want git to do anything
> automatically.

Hmm. Maybe git-gui should look at this flag on startup and if set simply not perform the loose object count check.

> On every new git release there are new automatism that i've to disable.
> Is there a way to just disable all this automatism in all git tools
> globaly?

No.

-- 
Shawn.