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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update "gc" behavior in commit, merge, am, rebase and
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:11:01 -0400
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:36:28PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > Instead, we could just inform users that "gc" should be run soon in
> > commonly used commands (this patch also reinstates "gc" check in
> > commit, which was lost at the sh->C conversion). [1] and [2] can annoy
> > users constantly with warnings. This patch shows the warning at most
> > once a day.
> 
> I agree with this.  However don't bother making this once a day.  There 
> is no harm in warning every time.

I don't mind seeing a warning every time I run "git commit" myself, but
aren't there things which run "merge" and "commit" in a loop? For
example, "git rebase -m"? Warning 20 times when 20 commits are rebased
seems excessive.

-Peff