On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:41 AM, koreth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > And as an added bonus, we can tell people how to turn off automatic GC > > and how to invoke it by hand. > > > + fprintf(stderr, "Packing your repository for optimum " > > + "performance. If you would rather run\n" > > + "\"git gc\" by hand, run \"git config gc.auto 0\" " > > + "to disable automatic cleanup.\n"); > > I'm not sure telling the users how to disable it every time it shows up is a > good idea. gc --auto exists for the naive user, and suggesting they turn it > off each time it happens will just result in... people turning it off, > leading back to the performance issues that caused the feature to be installed > in the first place. Perhaps a message more along the lines of "To avoid this, > run "git gc" manually on a regular basis. See 'git help gc' for more > information." This is indeed a good point. And for those who start repacking manually then the automatic repacking will very rarely trigger, reducing the need for turning automatic repacking off anyway. Nicolas - 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
