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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com>,
	Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
	Tom Tobin <korpios@korpios.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:08:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018180843.GA11624@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47176AB9.7010409@midwinter.com>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:16:25AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:

>> installed in the first place.  Perhaps a message more along the lines of 
>> "To avoid this, run "git gc" manually on a regular basis.  See 'git help 
>> gc' for more information."
>
> That's a good point. Jeff / Shawn, do you agree with that? I'll come up with 
> an alternate patch if so.

Yes, that seems reasonable. I think the most important thing is that
they realize that "git-gc" is responsible for what is happening.  That
should allow them to find more information in the documentation if they
want (and Brian's suggestion points directly to the documentation, which
is great).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16  6:45 On Tabs and Spaces Michael Witten
2007-10-16  7:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-16  7:27   ` Michael Witten
2007-10-16 17:20     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-16 17:40       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-16 23:09         ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-17  3:41           ` David
2007-10-17 11:32             ` Andy Parkins
2007-10-16  8:30 ` Adam Piatyszek
2007-10-16  9:04   ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-16 10:16     ` Adam Piatyszek
2007-10-16 15:26       ` Jeffrey C. Ollie
2007-10-16 15:51         ` Michael Witten
2007-10-16 17:06           ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 19:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 19:36               ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-16 19:47                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 19:51                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 20:32                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-16 20:18               ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-16 23:05                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 23:51                   ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17  0:45                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17  3:08                       ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17  3:29                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17  7:17                       ` Luke Lu
2007-10-17  9:09                         ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17 10:03                           ` Luke Lu
2007-10-17 10:21                           ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-17 11:23                             ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17 22:02                           ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-17 22:36                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-17 23:38                               ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-18  4:31                                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-18  8:19                                   ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-18 11:34                                     ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-18 11:39                                       ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-22  3:39                                         ` Miles Bader
2007-10-18  7:15                               ` David Kågedal
2007-10-18  5:42                             ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-18 10:36                               ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-17 15:53                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:05                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 18:25                           ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-17 18:54                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:33                               ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-17 19:44                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:48                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 19:52                                 ` Josh England
2007-10-17 19:53                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 21:21                                   ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17 22:03                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  6:25                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 22:11                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:17                                       ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17 23:44                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-18  0:31                                           ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-18  6:02                                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-18  7:12                                             ` David Kågedal
2007-10-17 23:53                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 20:31                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 21:08                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 19:47                               ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-18  0:32                           ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  0:59                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  2:45                               ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  3:03                                 ` david
2007-10-18  3:00                                   ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  3:32                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  4:17                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  3:13                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  3:23                                   ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  4:41                                     ` [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start koreth
2007-10-18  4:44                                       ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-18  5:01                                       ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  5:11                                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-18 13:52                                       ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-18 14:16                                         ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-18 18:08                                           ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-10-19  0:16                                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  1:12                                             ` [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification Jeff King
2007-10-19  1:24                                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  1:26                                                 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 14:21                                         ` [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-18  4:52                                 ` On Tabs and Spaces Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-18  4:54                                   ` Jeff King
2007-10-18  4:55                                     ` Jeff King
2007-10-17 16:08                         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 17:44                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 19:52                             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 17:51                           ` Sean
2007-10-17  5:56                   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-16 20:56               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18  3:31               ` Paul Wankadia
2007-10-18  4:22                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  4:36               ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-16 17:23         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-16 18:34           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-10-16 18:51             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-20 13:54 ` Robin Rosenberg

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