From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:26:01 GMT Subject: Re: notify alternative to auto gc? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:10, Karl Stenerud wrote: > The git help tells me I can disable it by setting gc.auto to 0, while the mailing list archive tells me I also have to set gc.autopacklimit to 0.  This is fine, but if I do that, I won't know when the repo is in need of cleanup.  Is there any option I can set to instruct it to simply TELL me when it's in need of gc? Anything that tells you whether you need to gc would incur much of the speed penalty that running gc itself does.