From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20071019012608.GA6403@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071018024553.GA5186@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071018032307.GA7313@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071018044143.GA24043@midwinter.com> <3391BADA-B5B4-4A8E-A6C0-42169AFC0331@silverinsanity.com> <47176AB9.7010409@midwinter.com> <20071019001648.GO14735@spearce.org> <20071019011211.GC3290@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071019012430.GT14735@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steven Grimm , Brian Gernhardt , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 19 03:26:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iigd7-0000LG-HS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:26:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763988AbXJSB0M (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763788AbXJSB0M (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:12 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4868 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763400AbXJSB0L (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 6134 invoked by uid 111); 19 Oct 2007 01:26:10 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:10 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:26:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071019012430.GT14735@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:24:30PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > I think what you have is many times better. It doesn't tell the > user that they can prevent having this activate at the wrong time > by just running git-gc every so often, but if the message (and > the subsequent packing itself) is annoying they'll read the manual > entry and hopefully figure that out on their own. Yes, I tried many wordings of "this is annoying and you want to avoid it," but explaining the situation takes way too much time for such a commonly seen message. And I think some people will actually prefer it that way. BTW, the git-gc manpage needs some cleanup. Patches to follow. -Peff