Re: [PATCH] Add commands that git-gc runs underneath

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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> git-gc is a higher level utility to "do the right thing". However there 
>> are many other lower level utilities for the house keeping and it is not 
>> clear what git-gc actually does. Adding the actual lower level command 
>> and their parameters explain "what's going on".x
>
> Isn't the whole purpose of git-gc to make it _unnecessary_ to know which 
> lowlevel commands are run?

Unnecessary and undocumented are two different things.  I think it
very reasonable to document what exactly git-gc does and what it is
equivalent to.  So in principle,

Acked-by: David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>

However, since this is detail information, it may be appropriate to
put this into a footnote and/or compress the copious number of empty
lines in it: that would better maintain the relation with the rest of
the entry.

-- 
David Kastrup

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