From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:41:43 GMT
Subject: Re: bug? git push triggers auto pack when gc.auto = 0
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Bo4XgA-g2hy+_pVEKLnerL9WNhpWe==zJANmCMdGXuow@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140204T030158-758@post.gmane.org>

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:20 AM, chris <jugg@hotmail.com> wrote:
> $ git push origin next
> Counting objects: 56, done.
> Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
> Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (9/9), 895 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
> Total 9 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.

This string only appears in versions before 1.8.0. It's longer after 1.8.0.

> To ssh://git@my.server.com/my_project
>    3560275..f508080  next -> next
> $ git config gc.auto
> 0
> $ git config gc.autopacklimit
> 0
> $ git --version
> git version 1.8.5.3

but your client is after 1.8.0 so the string printed above is from the
server side. "git config gc.auto" here does not matter. Run that
command again on my.server.com.

> So my question is, should gc.auto = 0 disable auto-packing from occurring on
> git push and other non-gc commands?

Yes it should.
-- 
Duy