Am 26.09.19 um 21:15 schrieb Pratyush Yadav: > Reading the Stackoverflow link, it seems this is already possible via an > undocumented config variable "gui.gcwarning". I haven't tried using it > though, but I see no reason for it to not work (looking at > git-gui.sh:4141). Ah! That explains why I don't see the message on one of my computers, but I do see on others. I must have reset gui.gcwarning there a decade ago, and forgot about it. > Maybe we should add this variable in the options dialog, so people at > least know it exists? That may be the most reasonable thing to do, IMO. >> What about a configurable limit, but still show the dialog? > > Do people really care that much about configuring this limit to warrant > something like this? Never mind. We don't need it if there is a simple switch. > Talking about auto compression, would it be a better idea to let users > disable the dialog, and then if they do want auto compression, they can > just run a cron job (or the Windows equivalent) to do this on their > repos? What reasons do people have to have this feature in git-gui, > instead of running cron jobs? This is a GUI. It was intended for people with a dislike of the command line. If you avoid the command line as much as possible, you never get to see any object statistics; yet, all operations would slow down gradually due to object bloat with no way out. Remember that this feature was invented long before auto-gc came to existence. Not to mention that git-gui uses plumbing mostly where auto-gc would not trigger anyway. -- Hannes
