Re: [PATCH] Do not run git-pack-refs by default for now from git-gc

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 10:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702131151520.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070213102951.GA14903@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:03:32AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me that the reason are dumb transports, which are very 
> > likely to run only from bare repositories. How about checking for a 
> > bare repository explicitely, and only if it _is_ bare, check for 
> > gc.packrefs, too?
> 
> The way you have stated it, I think we will get a lot of "I set 
> gc.packrefs, but it doesn't do anything!" complaints. I think a 
> tri-state "yes/no/notbare" defaulting to "notbare" makes more sense. But 
> maybe you meant the other way around in the first place.

No, I meant it as you understood it. But your solution is evidently way more elegant.

Ciao, Dscho