Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2007, 02:49 UTC
Message-ID: <46DF6AA8.60804@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070906024555.GJ18160@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> But this suffers from the same fate if the user sets gc.auto too
> small and doesn't realize that the reason Git is always repacking
> is because over the last 6 months they have been unlucky enough to
> stage the magic number of unreachable blobs into the 17 directory
> and they have *never* run `git gc --prune` because the auto thing
> is working just fine for them and they don't realize they need to
> prune every once in a blue moon.
>

Check the modification times on those files and don't count ones that are older than the last git-gc run, maybe? That'd take care of the problem.

-Steve

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