On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I did a git pull on my project today, git went into some kind of auto gc mode:
>
> Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. You may also
> run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.
> Counting objects: 4531, done.
>
> This is, of course, quite an annoying feature since it could hit at any (inconvenient) time.
>
> The git help tells me I can disable it by setting gc.auto to 0, while the mailing list archive tells me I also have to set gc.autopacklimit to 0. This is fine, but if I do that, I won't know when the repo is in need of cleanup. Is there any option I can set to instruct it to simply TELL me when it's in need of gc?
>
I don't think there is an existing configuration for this but I think
you can achieve what you want with the "pre-auto-gc" hook. From the
githooks(5) man page
pre-auto-gc
This hook is invoked by git gc --auto. It takes no parameter, and
exiting with non-zero status from this script causes the git gc --auto
to abort.
So a hook like
#! /bin/sh
echo "repository needs git gc"
exit 1
Should cause the auto gc to be skipped.
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