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Re: [PATCH] Add commands that git-gc runs underneath

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Aug 30, 2007, 10:25 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> git-gc is a higher level utility to "do the right thing". However there 
>> are many other lower level utilities for the house keeping and it is not 
>> clear what git-gc actually does. Adding the actual lower level command 
>> and their parameters explain "what's going on".x
>
> Isn't the whole purpose of git-gc to make it _unnecessary_ to know which 
> lowlevel commands are run?

Unnecessary and undocumented are two different things. I think it very reasonable to document what exactly git-gc does and what it is equivalent to. So in principle,

Acked-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>

However, since this is detail information, it may be appropriate to put this into a footnote and/or compress the copious number of empty lines in it: that would better maintain the relation with the rest of the entry.

-- 
David Kastrup
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Message 13 of 13 in “Add commands that git-gc runs underneath”
  1. Add commands that git-gc runs underneathJari Aalto, Aug 30, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2007
  3. Andreas EricssonAug 30, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonAug 30, 2007
  6. Tom ClarkeAug 30, 2007
  7. Theodore TsoAug 30, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2007
  9. Andreas EricssonAug 31, 2007
  10. David KastrupAug 31, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007
  12. David KastrupAug 31, 2007
  13. David KastrupAug 30, 2007

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