From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:47:48 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <86tzq9cxcb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <200709051042.04345.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
>> 
>> > When git-fetch and git-commit has done its job and is about to exit, it checks 
>> > the number of loose object, and if too high tells the user something 
>> > like "There are too many loose objects in the repo, do you want me to repack? 
>> > (y/N)". If the user answers "n" or simply <Enter>,
>> 
>> I don't like commands to be interactive if they don't _need_ to be so.
>> It kills scripting, it makes it hard for a front-end (git gui or so)
>> to use the command, ...
>
> Ok, so add an option or config variable to turn on/off this behaviour.

A bad idea which one can turn optionally off remains a bad idea for
everyone that has not been bitten enough by it already to actually
look up the problem and remedy.

Make this a warning.

-- 
David Kastrup