Re: git-gui: disable the "loose objects popup" dialog?

From: Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2019, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGr--=KAv8PQMOUbAh=aAWQeMuvHHacXF=+Mc2-NougLYgr2_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190926191545.ro7w6lbtlpbyxpk7@yadavpratyush.com>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:15 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:

> Talking about auto compression, would it be a better idea to let users
> disable the dialog, and then if they do want auto compression, they can
> just run a cron job (or the Windows equivalent) to do this on their
> repos?

Personally I would prefer that git-gui (silently) performs the check and compression for me when I open it on a repo. But I can totally see why some (propbably most) git users would not want that. So I don't really mind if that part of my proposal gets denied.

> What reasons do people have to have this feature in git-gui,
> instead of running cron jobs?

I can't really think of a reason. But then again I can't really think of a reason why users would want the "loose objects check" in git-gui in the first place. Especially not enabled by default, popping up when the user opens git-gui. A button (manual action) to perform this check and (if necessary) perform the compression would be better IMO.

Birger