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Re: git svn clone/fetch hits issues with gc --auto

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 10, 2018, 17:46 UTC
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<20181010174624.GC8786@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:51:52AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> > I'm just saying it's hard in this case to remove one piece without the
> > whole Jenga tower collapsing, and it's probably a good idea in some of
> > these cases to pester the user about what he wants, but probably not via
> > gc --auto emitting the same warning every time, e.g. in one of these
> > threads I suggested maybe "git status" should emit this.
> 
> I have to say, I don't have a lot of sympathy for this.
> 
> I've been running with the patches I sent before for a while now, and
> the behavior that they create is great.  I think we can make further
> refinements on top.  To put it another way, I haven't actually
> experienced any bad knock-on effects, and I think other feature
> requests can be addressed separately.

I think there may be some miscommunication here. The Jenga tower above is referring (I think) to Jonathan Tan's original patch to drop the warning entirely, which does have some unwanted side effects.

Your patches are much less controversial, I think, and are in next and marked as "will merge to master" in the last "what's cooking".

-Peff
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  1. Martin LanghoffOct 9, 2018
  2. Eric WongOct 9, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2018
  4. Martin LanghoffOct 10, 2018
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 10, 2018
  6. Martin LanghoffOct 10, 2018
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 10, 2018
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2018
  9. Jeff KingOct 10, 2018
  10. gc: introduce an --auto-exit-code option for undoing 3029970275Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 10, 2018
  11. Jeff KingOct 10, 2018
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  14. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2018
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  21. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 10, 2018
  22. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 10, 2018
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  25. Martin LanghoffOct 10, 2018
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