On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 04:56:31PM -0700, Karthik Nayak wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Forward the `--auto` flag to git-pack-refs(1) when it has been invoked > > with this flag itself. This does not change anything for the "files" > > backend, which will continue to eagerly pack refs. But it does ensure > > that the "reftable" backend only compacts refs as required. > > > > This change does not impact git-maintenance(1) as it won't ever end up > > executing the pack-refs task when run with `--auto`. > > > > I'm not sure I follow this one, the man page for git-maintenance(1) > doesn't mention anything about not running pack-refs when `--auto` is > used. I'm clarifying this further in patch 15. It's quite confusing in the first place that git-maintenance(1) doesn't ever pack refs at all when using `--auto`. I will amend the commit message to explain this better. Patrick
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