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Re: Flurries of 'git reflog expire'

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 11, 2017, 07:45 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote:
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> That's a few of the reasons we've switched over. I'd imagine most
> hosting providers take a similarly "hands on" approach to controlling
> their GC. Beyond a certain scale, it seems almost unavoidable. Git
> never has more than a repository-level view of the world; only the
> hosting provider can see the big picture.

Thanks for writing this out. I agree with all of the reasons given (in my email which I suspect crossed with yours, I just said "throttling", but there really are a lot of other reasons).

-Peff
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Message 14 of 15 in “Flurries of 'git reflog expire'”
  1. Andreas KreyJul 4, 2017
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 4, 2017
  3. Andreas KreyJul 6, 2017
  4. Jeff KingJul 5, 2017
  5. Andreas KreyJul 6, 2017
  6. Bryan TurnerJul 6, 2017
  7. Andreas KreyJul 11, 2017
  8. [BUG] detached auto-gc does not respect lock for 'reflog expire', was Re: Flurries of 'git reflog expire'Jeff King, Jul 11, 2017
  9. gc: run pre-detach operations under lockJeff King, Jul 11, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2017
  11. Jeff KingJul 12, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2017
  13. Bryan TurnerJul 11, 2017
  14. Jeff KingJul 11, 2017
  15. Jeff KingJul 11, 2017

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