Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 3, 2006, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031037250.4086@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060503171538.GC9820@thunk.org>

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:

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> Yeah, but the fact that you have to use repack and prune in order to
> keep the disk space usage from exploding (especially with the Linux
> 2.6 tree) , means that we have to expose that mess to the beginning
> user.

No you don't. You get it packed when it's cloned, and the disk usage doesn't go up _that_ fast. By the time you need to worry about disk usage you have certainly had time to learn the basics.

No need to start talking about fsck or repacking until the second day.

> Could git be made to do the repacking automatically when it makes sense 
> using some hueristic algorithm?

This was discussed, and yeah, it _could_, but I suspect you really don't want to repack in the middle of some op. Even if your repo was _mostly_ packed, it's an irritating hickup at a time when you don't need to.

I think it's much better to teach people to repack once a week (if that). But to teach them only after they've already _used_ it for a week and aren't intimidated by the basic ops any longer.

		Linus