From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:02:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] git-gc: add a --no-verify option to bypass the pre-auto-gc hook
Message-ID: <7v1w5qjhfk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> index d424a4e..396da5c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ automatic consolidation of packs.
>  --quiet::
>  	Suppress all progress reports.
>  
> +--no-verify::
> +	This option bypasses the pre-auto-gc hook.
> +	See also link:hooks.html[hooks].

The purpose of "gc --auto" is not about running it interactively yourself,
but to sprinkle calls to it at strategic places in your script.  If this
option is about disabling the hook temporarily for one-shot, it is not
like it is easier to rewrite such script to add --no-verify than actually
chmod -x the hook yourself.  So I am puzzled what the expected use is for
this option.