Re: [PATCH] git-am: Run git gc only once and not for every patch.

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> ...
>> I do not think moving "gc --auto" outside the loop hurts in
>> practice because you are not likely to be rebasing a truly huge
>> series every day, but cruft can accumulate during "git am" run
>> and the "gc --auto" inside loop was meant to clean them up.  The
>> idea was taken from importers that run repack every once in a
>> while (e.g. cvsimport runs every 1k commits), but "gc --auto"
>> was designed to be much more lightweight than a full repack and
>> that was the reason it was placed in the loop without counting
>> "every N commits".
> 
> Having said all that, I'll take your patch as-is except that I'd