Re: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
>>> But what I was really trying to point out in the documentation changes 
>>> was that now _other_ commands such as git-commit are also unsafe since 
>>> they call 'git-gc --auto' and could cause loose unreferenced objects to 
>>> be deleted. So it is not enough to just avoid calling git-gc when 
>>> dealing with a --shared repository.
>> Right.  Hmm.  I missed that completely when I thought about prune 
>> --expire.
> 
> I think that if you are using repository from which other repos borrow
> objects via alternates, it is a good idea to turn off automatic
> repacking with "git gc --auto" by setting gc.auto to 0