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Re: [PATCH] Update "gc" behavior in commit, merge, am, rebase and index-pack

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 15, 2012, 11:25 UTC
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm good with always warning too. The moment it shows up, I can just
>> open another terminal for "gc". Though (I guess) a new user in the
>> middle of the work may not want to do that as they fear "gc" may
>> interfere their work.
>
> If we know that it won't interfere with their work, can we just spawn
> git gc as a background process?

I thought of that for index-pack, but we would need to deal with error messages from gc messing up with foreground command's. I don't like a command leaving background processes (without asking me) after it exits, so index-pack should hang on until gc finishes. Which is ok for long time commands like index-pack, but not ok for commit, rebase...

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Duy
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Message 6 of 17 in “Update "gc" behavior in commit, merge, am, rebase and index-pack”
  1. Update "gc" behavior in commit, merge, am, rebase and index-packNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 12, 2012
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 12, 2012
  3. Nicolas PitreMay 12, 2012
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 14, 2012
  5. Sverre RabbelierMay 14, 2012
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 15, 2012
  7. Jeff KingMay 14, 2012
  8. Jeff KingMay 14, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2012
  10. 0/5 "git gc --auto" updateNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012
  11. 1/5 Add convenient function to do automatic garbage collectionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2012
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 19, 2012
  14. 2/5 index-pack: perform automatic gc, share receive.gc config with receive-packNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012
  15. 3/5 commit: reinstate "gc --auto"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012
  16. 4/5 gc: add --dry-runNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012
  17. 5/5 Update "gc" behavior in commit, merge, am and rebaseNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 16, 2012

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