From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Carlos Rica" Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 02:27:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1b46aba20709051727od0644d7t16eaa348af86952a@mail.gmail.com> References: <87odgh0zn6.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <46DEF1FA.4050500@midwinter.com> <877in50y7p.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <7vr6lcj2zi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v1wdciy3w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3axshe6q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" , Nix , "Steven Grimm" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 06 02:27:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IT5DJ-0000ID-W6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:27:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755686AbXIFA1M (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:27:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755231AbXIFA1L (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:27:11 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:8946 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754339AbXIFA1J (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:27:09 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2767547wah for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:27:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lrXY4hW8twvnpjplKeJlppb6N/m8d6+kTQ6CcBbyzBxVeiXRlABu+j6WNrAWoo62cpTHidC2Y6DkP1dKvWeHStRE3PwLTiUgAtmLNr9ggoncneSFcHnBeoOAe1Ra6UsMhuInzODxjZOlM5rtXiFnOnd+uWl+uMNOcZJ3KkCOLcY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CcqcjofZUXxHNO85fPqLGFcDwMrdAxyp0G7I4Q/e7FYPQWfyYZ9hWlLIglLRnFWUYmrPh/9g7XMV4Fi5zSlJ7ZYCZ5QX0WED+NbFvbpJfW2ZDcQeLWF3Ypqfcc6r//xwOjXjWLveP2jYNC9wzNOddFz8VS73Z5lJjax25cPinyM= Received: by 10.115.109.1 with SMTP id l1mr1719199wam.1189038425549; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.57.10 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:27:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7v3axshe6q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2007/9/6, Junio C Hamano : > Nicolas Pitre writes: > > The more I think of it, the less I like automatic repack. There is > > always a bad case for it somewhere. > > I tend to agree, but at the same time, I think the long term > goal should be not to have bad cases. The best solution is make "git gc" unnecessary. At the long term, and without loss of efficiency.