Re: [PATCH] commit: resurrect "gc --auto" at the end

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> >> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >> 
> >> As the scripted version of git-commit did, we now call gc --auto just 
> >> before the post-commit hook.
> >> 
> >> Any errors of gc --auto should be non-fatal, so we do not catch those; the 
> >> user should see them anyway.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> 	Junio wrote:
> >> 	>
> >> 	>  * "git commit" used to have one [call to 'gc --auto'] at the 
> >> 	>    end in the scripted version, but seems to have lost it in C
> >> 	>    rewrite.
> >> 
> >> 	How about this?
> >
> > Any news on this?
> 
> I had an impression that we accepted the hook which made "gc --auto" 
> more expensive by forcing it to check the hook (and possibly execute it 
> every time) after vetting am, svn and friends to make sure nobody 
> triggered "gc --auto" once per every commit, and during that vetting 
> process we noticed that "git commit" lost the "gc --auto" at the end.