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Re: [PATCH,RFC] make it easier for people who just want to get rid of 'git gc --auto'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2008, 21:59 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> +Some git commands may automatically run `git-gc`; see the `--auto` flag
> +below for details. If you know what you're doing and all you want is to
> +disable this behavior permanently without further considerations, just do:

I sense certain amount of distaste on the writer's part in the later part of this sentence. Did you have to say "without further considerations" to hint "you are idiot not to consider downsides?"

Maybe we would want to warn what kind of downsides the user might be dismissing without thinking, which can come back and haunt him later?

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