From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:18:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce gc.autowarnonly config option
Message-ID: <CAG+J_DzNsAP1xAswkNxTAN6ze8ZV5pFqDMeQXKkjCoQgPUgEQQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111105140529.3A6CE9004A@inscatolati.net>

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net> wrote:
> When `git gc --auto` would detect need for garbage collection to run, it
> would just run.  With this patch, enabling gc.autowarnonly will instead
> make it just emit a warning.
>
> Reviewed-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net>

This is much better than the solution I've been living with the last
year, which was to put a pre-auto-gc in my templates directory of:

#!/bin/sh
echo "time to run git gc"
exit 1

So, thank you.

j.