From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:06:21 GMT
Subject: Re: does a successful 'git gc' imply 'git fsck'
Message-ID: <7vpq2rtele.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nk3uu39.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> But a "gc" does not necessarily run "repack -a" when it does not see
>> too many pack files, so it can end up scanning only the surface of
>> the history to collect the recently created loose objects into a
>> pack, and stop its traversal without going into existing packfiles.
>
> Isn't that the behavior of "git gc --auto", not plain "git gc" ?

True; I missed that Sitaram was running "gc" manually.