On Tue, Mar 18 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > > Could we please PLEASE kill this auto gc thing? I've complained about > > > this in the past and disabled it through the gc.auto config entry, > > > however now git seems to be happily auto running gc even with gc.auto=0. > > > So there's probably some new magic I need to know. > > > > Do you do something odd with your repositories? I don't even touch autogc > > on my systems, but I have never had that thing trigger, even when I apply > > series of patches from Andrew with hundreds of messages. > > Not to my knowledge, I haven't changed anything in my setup or behaviour > in ages. > > > So what is it that you do to even get this behaviour in the first place? > > The last few times it was: > > $ git checkout master > $ git branch some-test-branch > $ git checkout some-test-branch > $ git pull . some-devel-branch axboe@carl:~/git/linux-2.6-block> git count-objects 901 objects, 6448 kilobytes xboe@carl:~/git/linux-2.6-block> git pull remote: Counting objects: 320, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (43/43), done. remote: Total 214 (delta 171), reused 214 (delta 171) Receiving objects: 100% (214/214), 31.78 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (171/171), completed with 68 local objects. >From ssh://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block bde4f8f..f920bb6 master -> origin/master Updating bde4f8f..f920bb6 Fast forward Auto packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information. ^C So 901 objects, pulled 68 objects. And auto gc kicks in. WTF? The git before was from probably a week ago, this above run was done with git just updated. git version 1.5.5.rc0.6.gdeda -- Jens Axboe -- 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
