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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 08:51 UTC
Message-ID: <65C61F04-EF05-4CB4-A4E2-BFF6601F46B9@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl5tk1r8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

El 5/9/2007, a las 9:30, Junio C Hamano escribió:

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> Perhaps _exiting_ "git-commit" and "git-fetch" before doing
> anything, when the repository has more than 5000 loose objects
> with a LOUD bang that instructs an immediate repack would be
> good?
>
> I really do not like the idea of automatically running a repack
> after first interrupting the original command and then resuming.
> For one thing it would make a horribly difficult situation to
> debug if anything goes wrong.  You cannot reproduce such a
> situation easily.

I would strongly oppose any *automatic* repacking and strongly support any *advisory* recommandation to repack when the loose object count exceeds a certain threshold. I don't think *exiting* a command in such cases is a good idea; worse than automatic repacking this would be *forced* manual repacking, which isn't very user-friendly.

Cheers, Wincent