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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzm01v4li.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90709050227u777ed7b9w23dc3bab13c7b09b@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 9/5/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> [alias]
>>         begin = gc
>>         leave = gc
>>
>> That is, the user's manual says 'at the beginning of the day,
>> run "git begin" to start the day, and at the end of day, run
>> "git leave" to conclude your day', without saying why ;-)
>
> I actually like that one ;-)

There's indeed a real idea behind that. The issue is that the alias shouldn't be just "gc", but "find-all-repositories-and-do-gc-there".

Currently, AFAIK, that can only be done with a (trivial) script external to git. I suppose this can easily be added to the core git porcelain. Perhaps a "git gc --recursive" would do.

It doesn't solve the problem, but makes it easier to solve it (git gc --recursive in cron for example).

-- 
Matthieu