From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:37:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20070905073738.GA10570@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <46a038f90709050021o5cdcc976xd099242aeb70643d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 05 09:37:54 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 1ISpST-0003a0-EA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:37:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754852AbXIEHhr convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:37:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754175AbXIEHhr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:37:47 -0400 Received: from diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.90.142]:4962 "EHLO diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754054AbXIEHhr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:37:47 -0400 Received: from kha by diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ISpSE-0002qi-00; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:37:38 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Martin Langhoff , Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46a038f90709050021o5cdcc976xd099242aeb70643d@mail.gmail.com> X-Manual-Spam-Check: kha@treskal.com, clean User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2007-09-05 19:21:29 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I never followed up on one of your suggestions back in the day -- > that we printed an informational msg along the lines of "you have X > loose objects, it's about time to repack" after some operations > (fetch, merge, commit). git-gui pops up a dialog that says precisely that, and gives you the choice of repacking right then and there, or skip it. As for truly automatic repacking after commands such as fetch, it could probably be a config option (defaulting to "on"). It'd be important to have "press any key to abort repacking (with no ill effects)" type funtctionality, though. --=20 Karl Hasselstr=F6m, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle