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Re: auto gc again

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Mar 18, 2008, 18:14 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.00.0803181112270.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> 
> Could we please PLEASE kill this auto gc thing? I've complained about
> this in the past and disabled it through the gc.auto config entry,
> however now git seems to be happily auto running gc even with gc.auto=0.
> So there's probably some new magic I need to know.

Do you do something odd with your repositories? I don't even touch autogc on my systems, but I have never had that thing trigger, even when I apply series of patches from Andrew with hundreds of messages.

So what is it that you do to even get this behaviour in the first place?
			Linus
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  5. Linus TorvaldsMar 18, 2008
  6. Jens AxboeMar 18, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2008
  8. Jens AxboeMar 19, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2008
  10. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  11. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  12. Jens AxboeMar 19, 2008
  13. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  14. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2008
  16. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  17. Brandon CaseyMar 19, 2008
  18. builtin-gc.c: allow disabling all auto-gc'ing by assigning 0 to gc.autoBrandon Casey, Mar 19, 2008
  19. Teemu LikonenMar 20, 2008
  20. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  21. Jens AxboeMar 20, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsMar 19, 2008
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  25. Nicolas PitreMar 19, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2008
  27. Nicolas PitreMar 20, 2008
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  29. Nicolas PitreMar 20, 2008
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