auto gc again - Jens Axboe

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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: auto gc again
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:01:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318180118.GC17940@kernel.dk> (raw)

Hi,

Could we please PLEASE kill this auto gc thing? I've complained about
this in the past and disabled it through the gc.auto config entry,
however now git seems to be happily auto running gc even with gc.auto=0.
So there's probably some new magic I need to know.

But the new magic is really beside the point. Doing this 'for you' is
extremely annoying behaviour. I often work on my notebook, so disk is
both slow and battery is precious. I DON'T want gc to run automatically,
EVER. Not on repos I have had going for ages, not on ones I just cloned.
Please bury this silly policy and replace it with a printf() telling me
that I may increase my performance by running git gc. Don't just do it.
git does not know better.

-- 
Jens Axboe

next             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 18:01 Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-03-18 18:14 ` auto gc again Linus Torvalds
2008-03-18 18:19   ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-18 18:24     ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-18 18:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-18 18:39         ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 20:22           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-19 21:14             ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 21:44               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-20  6:00                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 20:37     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-19 21:17       ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 23:05         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-20  7:40           ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-20  7:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-20 17:31               ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 21:27       ` Brandon Casey
2008-03-19 21:53         ` [PATCH] builtin-gc.c: allow disabling all auto-gc'ing by assigning 0 to gc.auto Brandon Casey
2008-03-20  7:08           ` Teemu Likonen
2008-03-19 22:56         ` auto gc again Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-20  6:01         ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-19 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-19 21:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-19 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-19 23:16       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-19 23:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-20  3:13           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-20  4:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-20  4:40               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-03-20  4:49                 ` Junio C Hamano

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