From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:56:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] builtin/gc: forward git-gc(1)'s `--auto` flag when packing refs
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTWvLkzdJMOS4nU=zGhmXS2nSEXzK3Wo2+=jRgV56atrA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <474cf66b26f5e459dccd60a2dcd1a09eff86178c.1710706119.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Forward the `--auto` flag to git-pack-refs(1) when it has been invoked
> with this flag itself. This does not change anything for the "files"
> backend, which will continue to eagerly pack refs. But it does ensure
> that the "reftable" backend only compacts refs as required.
>
> This change does not impact git-maintenance(1) as it won't ever end up
> executing the pack-refs task when run with `--auto`.
>

I'm not sure I follow this one, the man page for git-maintenance(1)
doesn't mention anything about not running pack-refs when `--auto` is
used.