Re: gc.auto bug in 1.6.5.7

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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Brandon Casey
<brandon.casey.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jon Nelson wrote:
>> It would appear that there is a bug in git, at least as of 1.6.5.7, in
>> the gc command.
>> When gc.auto is non-zero, it appears to consider packfiles as "loose"
>> - this conflicts with pack.packSizeLimit, insofar as I have
>> pack.packSizeLimit set to 2M (which appears to work).  If gc.auto is,
>> say, 50 - once I exceed 50 2MB packs then gc --auto repacks *every
>> single time* it is run. This is unexpected, at least.
>
> There is also a gc.autopacklimit which controls auto-gc'ing based on
> the number of packs.  The default is 50 and it does not consider the
> pack.packSizeLimit setting when deciding whether or not to auto-gc.
> It can be raised, or it can be disabled by setting it to zero.

I disabled it entirely and that seemed to resolve the issue.  Thanks!


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Jon
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