# [PATCH] config: document 'gui.GCWarning' 3 messages from 2025-12-08 to 2025-12-16. Participants: Matthew Hughes, Kristoffer Haugsbakk. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64598 ## Matthew Hughes, 2025-12-08 19:04 Subject: [PATCH] config: document 'gui.GCWarning' Message-ID: <20251208190400.64920-1-matthewhughes934@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20251208190400.64920-1-matthewhughes934%40gmail.com ``` While investigating the config options set by 'scalar' I noticed this one wasn't documented. Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes --- Documentation/config/gui.adoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config/gui.adoc b/Documentation/config/gui.adoc index 171be774d2..1565c0af19 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gui.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/gui.adoc @@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ gui.blamehistoryctx:: linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. + +gui.GCWarning:: + Determines whether linkgit:git-gui[1] should prompt for garbage + collection when git detects a large number of loose objects in + the repository. The default value is "true". -- 2.52.0 ``` ## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-12-08 19:20 Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: document 'gui.GCWarning' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ded2184e-595c-46f3-bba7-1bb574c2964c%40app.fastmail.com In-Reply-To: <20251208190400.64920-1-matthewhughes934@gmail.com> ``` On Mon, Dec 8, 2025, at 20:04, Matthew Hughes wrote: > While investigating the config options set by 'scalar' I noticed this > one wasn't documented. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes > --- >[snip] Apparently this is a continuation from here https://lore.kernel.org/git/jcqsqytuxpqwn3yhpz7fxucbuuf635q3jfgkjzauxwhrkhl7gg@g42r5kwwoknd/ ``` ## Matthew Hughes, 2025-12-16 20:15 Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: document 'gui.GCWarning' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vglmz6lyxgnvmzfu2hysahds7n7tqewxt46vnupxm4z22z5gtm%40ay43veirqo4o In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 08:20:07PM +0100, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: > Apparently this is a continuation from here https://lore.kernel.org/git/jcqsqytuxpqwn3yhpz7fxucbuuf635q3jfgkjzauxwhrkhl7gg@g42r5kwwoknd/ Indeed, thanks for linking that. Full context for the sake of anyone else: the patchset linked above is replaced by: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2010.git.1764195516.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/, except for this patch which is stand-alone. ```