From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Flurries of 'git reflog expire'
Message-ID: <20170711074539.xqtqqee7a7fbemyn@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGyf7-F-zG7NR_bd_sVLdVM5xT9UbJrW_=5imiihNu15E5OsYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote:

> 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