From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 02:04:59 GMT Subject: Re: Make "git gc" pack all refs by default Message-ID: <7vy7jdu08k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > Also, make the default for refs packing just be an unambiguous "do it", > rather than "do it by default only for non-bare repositories". If you want > that behaviour, you can always just add a > > [gc] > packrefs = notbare > > in your ~/.gitconfig file, but I don't actually see why bare would be any > different (except for the broken reason that http-fetching used to be > totally broken, and not doing it just meant that it didn't even get > fixed in a timely manner!). Boy, you are a lot more aggressive than me. But the fix was in v1.5.0 and we had two feature releases since then, so it's a good time to do this. Thanks.