Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static const char builtin_gc_usage[] = "git-gc [--prune] [--aggressive]";
> >>  
> >>  static int pack_refs = 1;
> >>  static int aggressive_window = -1;
> >> +static int gc_auto_threshold = 6700;
> >
> > Please don't do that.
> >
> > When you share objects with another git directory, git-gc --auto can 
> > get rid of the objects when some objects go away in the referenced 
> > repository.
> 
> I thought the whole point of "gc --auto" was to have something
> that does not lose/prune any objects, even the ones that do not
> seem to be referenced from anywhere.  That is why invocations of
> "git gc --auto" do not say --prune as you saw the second patch,
> and the repack command "gc --auto" runs is "repack -d -l"
> instead of "repack -a -d -l", which means that it does run
> git-prune-packed after repacking but not git-prune.
> 
> Maybe I am missing something...