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Re: gc getting called on each git command ... what's wrong?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Jun 8, 2011, 17:09 UTC
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Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org> writes:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Geoff Russell wrote:
> >
> > As of today, almost every time I do a git command, gc is getting
> > invoked.
> 
> >   There are 96 pack files.
> 
> That's why. See gc.autopacklimit in "git help config" -- by default,
> git will gc if there are more than 50 pack files.

Actually it looks like it is combination of this and packSizeLimit set to 30M. Git notices that it has too many packfiles, and tries to repack them, but packlimit forces Git to split it into small packfiles... and end up with more packfiles than limit anyway.

Perhaps git should notice that it has nonsensical combination of options...

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Jakub Narebski
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  1. Geoff RussellJun 8, 2011
  2. Peter HarrisJun 8, 2011
  3. Drew NorthupJun 8, 2011
  4. Brandon CaseyJun 8, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  7. Geoff RussellJun 15, 2011
  8. Jakub NarebskiJun 15, 2011
  9. Geoff RussellJun 16, 2011
  10. Jakub NarebskiJun 16, 2011

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