From: Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:12:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-gui: disable the "loose objects popup" dialog?
Message-ID: <CAGr--=Jv2Zh7meg3V8Q5EyTZZF=4v465+wzBx2YNmrFbq3PAhA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191001180005.iemqmlbn7ncv3dav@yadavpratyush.com>

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:00 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
> So here's what I propose: why don't we try to do something similar? What
> about running `git-gc --auto` in the background when the user makes a
> commit (which I assume is the most common operation in git-gui). This
> would be disabled when the user sets gc.auto to 0.
>
> This way, we keep a similar experience to the command line in case of
> auto-gc, and we get rid of the prompt. People who don't want
> auto-compression can just set gc.auto to 0, which they should do anyway.

FWIW that proposal sounds pretty good to me.

Birger