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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: auto gc again
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320060030.GE17940@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803192243270.3983@racer.site>

On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But you never answer the question on whether you really consider any 
> > > > form of autopacking or auto gc sane? Next time some other limit is 
> > > > added for auto gc, it'll be annoying once more.
> > > 
> > > The problem is: if people do not bother to "git gc" their 
> > > repositories, git operations get slow.  We just had enough of that, 
> > > and decided to "git gc" automatically for people who did not know 
> > > about it, or were to lazy and then complained about git for being 
> > > slow.
> > 
> > Sorry I disagree,
> 
> In this case, you can disagree as much as you want and you are still 
> wrong.

You are catering to the wrong end of the scale, nothing good comes of
that in the longer run.

> The problem is that you are more intelligent than most others, and now you 
> experience the downsides of it.

Whatever. If you don't have something worthwhile to say, please don't
respond.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 18:01 auto gc again Jens Axboe
2008-03-18 18:14 ` 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 [this message]
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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