Re: [PATCH] Add commands that git-gc runs underneath

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Aug 30, 2007, 10:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46D6984D.9040802@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708301107320.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
>> git-gc is a higher level utility to "do the right thing". However there 
>> are many other lower level utilities for the house keeping and it is not 
>> clear what git-gc actually does. Adding the actual lower level command 
>> and their parameters explain "what's going on".x
> 
> Isn't the whole purpose of git-gc to make it _unnecessary_ to know which 
> lowlevel commands are run?
> 
> NACK.
>

I think of it as a handy way of doing all those tasks in the correct order without having to remember more than a single command.

I kinda like it, and it might be helpful if someone's got a large repo and one part of gc for some reason didn't complete so they want to start at whatever step it broke off on.

When gc was a shell-script, it was fairly easy to find out the command- sequence. Now it's a built-in and that deduction actually takes some time and brainpower, so...

Acked-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>

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