Re: git-gui: disable the "loose objects popup" dialog?

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sep 26, 2019, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <9d77189d-a357-ab0a-6cb5-e87ecdeffb91@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190926191545.ro7w6lbtlpbyxpk7@yadavpratyush.com>

Am 26.09.19 um 21:15 schrieb Pratyush Yadav:

> Reading the Stackoverflow link, it seems this is already possible via an 
> undocumented config variable "gui.gcwarning". I haven't tried using it 
> though, but I see no reason for it to not work (looking at 
> git-gui.sh:4141).

Ah! That explains why I don't see the message on one of my computers, but I do see on others. I must have reset gui.gcwarning there a decade ago, and forgot about it.

> Maybe we should add this variable in the options dialog, so people at 
> least know it exists?

That may be the most reasonable thing to do, IMO.

>> What about a configurable limit, but still show the dialog?
> 
> Do people really care that much about configuring this limit to warrant 
> something like this?

Never mind. We don't need it if there is a simple switch.

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> Talking about auto compression, would it be a better idea to let users 
> disable the dialog, and then if they do want auto compression, they can 
> just run a cron job (or the Windows equivalent) to do this on their 
> repos? What reasons do people have to have this feature in git-gui, 
> instead of running cron jobs?

This is a GUI. It was intended for people with a dislike of the command line. If you avoid the command line as much as possible, you never get to see any object statistics; yet, all operations would slow down gradually due to object bloat with no way out. Remember that this feature was invented long before auto-gc came to existence. Not to mention that git-gui uses plumbing mostly where auto-gc would not trigger anyway.

-- Hannes