On 2010-06-28, at 12:26 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:10, Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > Anything that tells you whether you need to gc would incur much of the > speed penalty that running gc itself does. Actually, no it wouldn't. If checking did incur much of the speed penalty, then git, in general, would already be horribly slow all the time because it automatically does a gc-check with most commonly used commands, according to the documentation. In the case which I observed, the time from typing "git pull" until the auto-gc notification was a few seconds. The time from the notification until gc completion, however, was 3-4 minutes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html