Change the behavior of git-commit back to what it was back in d4bb43ee27 ("Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase.", 2007-09-05) when it was git-commit.sh. Shortly afterwards in f5bbc3225c ("Port git commit to C.", 2007-11-08) when it was ported to C the "git gc --auto" invocation went away. Before this git gc --auto only ran for git-{am,merge,fetch,receive-pack}, therefore it was possible to write a script that would "git commit" a lot of data locally, and gc would never run. One such repository that was locally committing generated zone file changes had grown to a size of ~60GB before a daily cronjob was added to "git gc", bringing it down to less than 1GB. This will make such cases work transparently. I think fixing such pathological cases where the repository will grow forever is a worthwhile trade-off for spending a couple of milliseconds calling "git gc --auto" (in the common cases where it doesn't do anything). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/commit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index e8e8d13be4..b671367840 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -1402,6 +1402,7 @@ int run_commit_hook(int editor_is_used, const char *index_file, const char *name int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) { + const char *argv_gc_auto[] = {"gc", "--auto", NULL}; static struct wt_status s; static struct option builtin_commit_options[] = { OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("suppress summary after successful commit")), @@ -1608,6 +1609,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) rerere(0); run_commit_hook(use_editor, get_index_file(), "post-commit", NULL); + run_command_v_opt(argv_gc_auto, RUN_GIT_CMD); if (amend && !no_post_rewrite) { commit_post_rewrite(current_head, &oid); } -- 2.15.1.424.g9478a66081