From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:30:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] refs: introduce `--auto` to pack refs as needed
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTgJj=moQC2Ve40KzSinmNGFwTSx_RcKaiCEQArcg8NoQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1710706118.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> The `PACK_REFS_AUTO` flag is exposed via a new `git pack-refs --auto`
> flag. It is wired up in both `git gc --auto` and `git maintenance run
> --auto`.
>

Wondering if this is also exposed as a config option.

> The series is structured as follows:
>
>     - Patches 1 - 5: Bugfixes and improvements for the reftable-specific
>       compaction code. These are issues that I've found while working on
>       this series.
>
>     - Patches 6 - 8: Refactorings to drop the `PACK_REFS_ALL` flag,
>       which isn't actually used by the ref backends anymore and confused
>       me multiple times.
>
>     - Patches 9 - 15: Handling of `PACK_REFS_ALL` in git-pack-refs(1),
>       git-gc(1) and git-maintenance(1).
>

I'm assuming this means `PACK_REFS_AUTO` in the last sentence.