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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Stefan Beller" <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Matt McCutchen" <matt@mattmccutchen.net>,
	"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 11/11] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:32:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322093242.5508-12-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321205054.17109-1-avarab@gmail.com>

The chance of a repository being corrupted due to a "gc" has nothing
to do with whether or not that "gc" was invoked via "gc --auto", but
whether there's other concurrent operations happening.

This is already noted earlier in the paragraph, so there's no reason
to suggest this here. The user can infer from the rest of the
documentation that "gc" will run automatically unless gc.auto=0 is
set, and we shouldn't confuse the issue by implying that "gc --auto"
is somehow more prone to produce corruption than a normal "gc".

Well, it is in the sense that a blocking "gc" would stop you from
doing anything else in *that* particular terminal window, but users
are likely to have another window, or to be worried about how
concurrent "gc" on a server might cause corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-gc.txt | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 49aec5435b..2af503bdb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ mitigate this problem:
 
 However, these features fall short of a complete solution, so users who
 run commands concurrently have to live with some risk of corruption (which
-seems to be low in practice) unless they turn off automatic garbage
-collection with 'git config gc.auto 0'.
+seems to be low in practice).
 
 HOOKS
 -----
-- 
2.21.0.360.g471c308f928


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-18 16:14 [PATCH 0/4] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:27   ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:18     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:31   ` Jeff King
2019-03-21 22:11     ` Andreas Heiduk
2019-03-19  2:08   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] gc docs: de-duplicate "OPTIONS" and "CONFIGURATION" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:49   ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:48     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 23:42       ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 20:28   ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-03-18 21:22     ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:13       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 23:53         ` Jeff King
2019-03-19  6:54   ` Johannes Sixt
2019-03-19  9:28     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:51 ` [PATCH 0/4] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:45   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-19  0:18     ` Jeff King
2019-05-06  9:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-07  7:51         ` Jeff King
2019-05-09 23:20           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-31  4:26             ` Jeff King
2019-07-31 10:12               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 00/11] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 01/11] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 02/11] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 03/11] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 04/11] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-30 18:04     ` Todd Zullinger
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 00/11] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 01/11] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 02/11] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 03/11] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 04/11] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 05/11] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 06/11] gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 07/11] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 08/11] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 09/11] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 10/11] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 11/11] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 05/11] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 06/11] gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 07/11] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 08/11] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 09/11] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 10/11] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  6:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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