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From: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: resurrect "gc --auto" at the end
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> With this patch, we would again have a command that runs "gc
> --auto" once per every commit, wouldn't we?

Not sure if we have timing information. E.g. look at the 
timestamp of some file that "git gc" touched and only do this if 
it's old enought. Or look at the previous commit and only 
run "gc --auto" if this is far enought away, e.g. a couple of 
hours.