From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:14:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DEF1FA.4050500@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87odgh0zn6.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
Nix wrote:
> Indeed. I repack all our git trees in the middle of the night, and our
> incremental backup script drops .keep files corresponding to every
> existing pack before running the backup.
>
> This is probably a good job for cron :)
>
If you are setting up cron jobs to repack multiple git trees, you are
not the kind of novice or casual git user who this proposal would
primarily be aimed at.
But in any event, since you are doing that, your repos will never
accumulate a high enough percentage of loose objects (whatever the
threshold is) to trigger the warning and/or automatic launch. So you can
continue to operate as before, no difference in behavior, while people
who don't know how / want to set up cron jobs will have their
repositories cleaned too.
git-gc can leave behind a "last completed" timestamp and we can suppress
the check for excess loose objects until some minimum amount of time has
passed since last git-gc. If that amount is greater than the interval
between your cron jobs, you won't even get any (measurable) overhead
from the detection to see if the warning is needed.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 7:09 People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Linus Torvalds
2007-09-05 7:21 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-09-05 7:37 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-09-05 7:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 7:26 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-09-05 8:13 ` Johan Herland
2007-09-05 8:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-05 8:41 ` Johan Herland
2007-09-05 8:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 8:51 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 9:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-05 8:51 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-05 7:42 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 8:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 8:50 ` Steven Grimm
[not found] ` <86ps0xcwxo.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-09-05 9:07 ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-05 9:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 9:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 9:27 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-09-05 9:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-05 14:17 ` Johan De Messemaeker
2007-09-05 17:31 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-05 23:56 ` Jeff King
2007-09-05 9:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 9:14 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 17:51 ` Nix
2007-09-05 18:14 ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-09-05 18:22 ` Nix
2007-09-05 18:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-05 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 20:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-05 21:14 ` Nix
2007-09-05 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 23:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-05 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 0:27 ` Carlos Rica
2007-09-06 5:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 21:59 ` Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 2:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-05 20:37 ` [PATCH] Invoke "git gc --auto" from "git add" and "git fetch" Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <69b0c0350709051357ifa547aarfe3e0b36cf9be98f@mail.gmail.com>
2007-09-05 20:59 ` Fwd: " Govind Salinas
2007-09-06 12:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-05 21:18 ` People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Alex Riesen
2007-09-06 2:44 ` Russ Dill
2007-09-06 2:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-06 9:28 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-06 2:45 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-06 2:49 ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-06 2:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-06 15:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-06 18:29 ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-06 23:12 ` Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-07 0:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-07 1:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 2:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-07 4:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-07 4:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-08 9:50 ` [PATCH] make sha1_file.c::matches_pack_name() available to others Junio C Hamano
2007-09-08 10:01 ` [PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 7:11 ` Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack Johannes Sixt
2007-09-07 7:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 7:24 ` Andy Parkins
2007-09-07 4:48 ` People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-07 10:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-07 18:28 ` What's so special about objects/17/ ? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-07 18:35 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-10-07 19:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-07 22:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-10-08 0:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-07 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-07 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-08 19:17 ` Stefan Beller
2018-10-09 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-09 17:37 ` Stefan Beller
2018-10-10 1:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-10 19:08 ` Stefan Beller
2018-10-08 10:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-09 1:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-09 17:40 ` Stefan Beller
2007-09-05 8:16 ` People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? David Kastrup
2007-09-05 16:47 ` Govind Salinas
2007-09-05 17:19 ` Carl Worth
2007-09-05 17:55 ` Jing Xue
2007-09-05 17:35 ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-05 18:28 ` Nix
2007-09-05 17:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-05 18:46 ` Brandon Casey
2007-09-05 19:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 19:13 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-05 19:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-05 19:20 ` Mike Hommey
2007-09-05 21:07 ` Alex Riesen
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