Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> But freshly pulled repo, git auto gc is enabled. And that is my main >> annoyance, I just don't think that type of policy should be in there. > > Just do this once: > > git config --global gc.auto 0 > git config --global gc.autopacklimit 0 Is there any reason why gc.auto=0 couldn't be used to disable auto packing entirely? Said differently, are there valid use cases where one might want automatic repacking based on the number of packs but _not_ based on the number of loose objects? If the answer is "no", then "gc.auto=0 means completely disable auto-gc" seems intuitive and would have protected Jens in this case. -brandon -- 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