From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:13:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive description
Message-ID: <3A0C16C0-601C-408E-BD48-7DB783586C20@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080513105728.GA3088@mithlond.arda.local>


On 13 mei 2008, at 12:57, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> This patch might be a good thing. But from ordinary user's point of  
> view
> this raises questions: if gc --aggressive really is not that  
> aggressive
> then the option itself is misleading. Why not change gc --aggressive  
> to
> be really effective? Using high --window/--depth value etc.

The problem is that you don't know what is aggressive for this  
repository; that is relative to how it was previously packed.

I'd much rather change --aggressive to something like --rebuild, which  
describes much better what it does. However, I don't think it's easy  
to just rename a flag, as scripts may depend on it.

- Pieter