Jakub Narebski wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: >>> But what I was really trying to point out in the documentation changes >>> was that now _other_ commands such as git-commit are also unsafe since >>> they call 'git-gc --auto' and could cause loose unreferenced objects to >>> be deleted. So it is not enough to just avoid calling git-gc when >>> dealing with a --shared repository. >> Right. Hmm. I missed that completely when I thought about prune >> --expire. > > I think that if you are using repository from which other repos borrow > objects via alternates, it is a good idea to turn off automatic > repacking with "git gc --auto" by setting gc.auto to 0 Either that or disable only the automatic pruning by setting gc.pruneexpire to never. > (or, hopefully, "never" or "false"). I think those only work for dates and booleans respectively. gc.auto is parsed as an int. -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
