From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:14:14 GMT
Subject: Re: auto gc again
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803181112270.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080318180118.GC17940@kernel.dk>



On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> 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