On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> When 1c192f3 (gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive - 2007-12-06) >> made --depth=250 the default value, it didn't really explain the >> reason behind, especially the pros and cons of --depth=250. >> >> An old mail from Linus below explains it at length. Long story short, >> --depth=250 is a disk saver and a performance killer. Not everybody >> agrees on that aggressiveness. Let the user configure it. > > > Suggestion to link to the email discussion(s) on gmane in the Documentation > or at least the commit message? If you mean the discussion back in 2007, there is a fake header "Gmane-URL" in Linus' mail in the commit message. -- Duy -- 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