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

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90709050227u777ed7b9w23dc3bab13c7b09b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqchjx9f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 9/5/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> [alias]
>         begin = gc
>         leave = gc
>
> That is, the user's manual says 'at the beginning of the day,
> run "git begin" to start the day, and at the end of day, run
> "git leave" to conclude your day', without saying why ;-)

I actually like that one ;-)

Anyway - this is turning out to be a bit of a bikeshed-painting event. You guys should google earlier discussions on this very same subject. They have always ended in "automatic=bad", "warning=good", and "careful or you might be called an idiot" before ;-)

cheers,

martin

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