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
next prev parent 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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