From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-gui: disable the "loose objects popup" dialog?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:54:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91e5b3b0-08f9-66a8-ebdf-90effd34c888@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGr--=K15nUcnsJWOP87uMMjeQmTgAeO_6hnr12k2zuNQjNyBw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 26.09.19 um 19:31 schrieb Birger Skogeng Pedersen:
> Every once in a while, I get the "This repository currently has
> approximately (some number) loose objects." popup dialog.
>
> I don't want to sound arrogant, but I find this popup along with the
> dialog showing after that prints the result of the compression,
> immensely annoying. And I've seen people mention before that they
> would, in some casese, rather not have to deal with the dialog[0].
>
> [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106529/how-to-skip-loose-object-popup-when-running-git-gui
>
> I get that git-gui merely wants to resolve a performance issue. But
> personally I'd prefer if git could just assume I always wanted to
> compress the database, and automatically do it without bugging me with
> the popups.
I dislike the popup, too. But I want total control over my repository:
No automatic compression behind my back, in particular, when that
expires reflogs, and git-gui does that.
> I propose we implement the following options in git-gui:
> - ignore loose objects (do not show the popup), disabled by default.
> - automatically, silently compress the database, without prompt. Also
> disabled by default.
What about a configurable limit, but still show the dialog?
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 17:31 git-gui: disable the "loose objects popup" dialog? Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-26 18:54 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-09-26 19:13 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-26 19:15 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-26 21:12 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-26 21:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-10-01 18:00 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-02 7:12 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-10-02 18:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-10-02 20:41 ` Marc Branchaud
2019-09-26 21:14 ` Marc Branchaud
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