From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:51:09 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <87odgh0zn6.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
In-Reply-To: <20070905074206.GA31750@artemis.corp>

On 5 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit said:
>   I know I don't really answer the question, but the point I try to make
> is that yeah, some kind of automated way to run the gc is great, but I'm
> not sure that _git_ is the tool to automate that, because when *I* use
> git, I expect it to be just plain fast, and I don't want it to
> occasionally hang.

Indeed. I repack all our git trees in the middle of the night, and our
incremental backup script drops .keep files corresponding to every
existing pack before running the backup.

This is probably a good job for cron :)