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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:27:23 +1200
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On 9/5/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> [alias]
>         begin = gc
>         leave = gc
>
> That is, the user's manual says 'at the beginning of the day,
> run "git begin" to start the day, and at the end of day, run
> "git leave" to conclude your day', without saying why ;-)

I actually like that one ;-)

Anyway - this is turning out to be a bit of a bikeshed-painting event.
You guys should google earlier discussions on this very same subject.
They have always ended in "automatic=bad", "warning=good", and
"careful or you might be called an idiot" before ;-)

cheers,


martin