From: Johan De Messemaeker <johan.demessemaeker@wgaf.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <D32A7C27-EAF5-4156-BE0E-99FE3D948AE8@wgaf.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzm01v4li.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>


On 05 Sep 2007, at 11:33, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
> There's indeed a real idea behind that. The issue is that the alias
> shouldn't be just "gc", but "find-all-repositories-and-do-gc-there".
>
> Currently, AFAIK, that can only be done with a (trivial) script
> external to git. I suppose this can easily be added to the core git
> porcelain. Perhaps a "git gc --recursive" would do.
>
> It doesn't solve the problem, but makes it easier to solve it (git gc
> --recursive in cron for example).

I'm a git newb so I can be wrong here but ...

Why --recursive? Why not use the submodule-information ?

Johan