On 2010-06-28, at 12:29 PM, Chris Packham wrote: > 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. Cool thanks! I'll give that a shot. -- 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