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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbqchjx9f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46DE6DBC.30704@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> The fact that git sometimes stores your files individually in the .git
> directory and sometimes bundles them together into big archives should
> be an implementation detail that end-users don't have to worry about
> day to day...

[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 ;-)

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