On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:00 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So here's what I propose: why don't we try to do something similar? What > about running `git-gc --auto` in the background when the user makes a > commit (which I assume is the most common operation in git-gui). This > would be disabled when the user sets gc.auto to 0. > > This way, we keep a similar experience to the command line in case of > auto-gc, and we get rid of the prompt. People who don't want > auto-compression can just set gc.auto to 0, which they should do anyway. FWIW that proposal sounds pretty good to me. Birger
