From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:04:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Mark remote `gc --auto` error messages
Message-ID: <20160602220454.GA17202@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvn3s148.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:59:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So the greater question is not "should this output be marked" but
> > "should auto-gc data go over the sideband so that all clients see it
> > (and any server-side stderr does not)". And I think the answer is
> > probably yes. And that fixes the "remote: " thing as a side effect.
> 
> Thanks for stating this a lot more clearly than I could, and I agree
> that sending this to the other side regardless of the protocol is
> the right thing.  I somehow doubt that server operators would check
> Apache logs to decide when to do a proper GC, so I do not consider
> it a true loss ;-)

I definitely agree. I'd wonder more about "would they want their users
to see these details". I dunno. I am only intimately familiar with one
git hosting site, and we turn off auto-gc completely.

-Peff