From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"? Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7vsl5tk1r8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200709051013.39910.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds To: Johan Herland X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 05 10:41:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISqSJ-0003Ui-MK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:41:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755957AbXIEIlj (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 04:41:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755872AbXIEIlj (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 04:41:39 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:40722 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755947AbXIEIli (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 04:41:38 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l858dqg9025304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:39:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1ISqQS-0004z4-78; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:52 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ISqQS-00083q-34; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200709051013.39910.johan@herland.net> (Johan Herland's message of "Wed\, 5 Sep 2007 10\:13\:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:54 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johan Herland writes: > When git-fetch and git-commit has done its job and is about to exit, it checks > the number of loose object, and if too high tells the user something > like "There are too many loose objects in the repo, do you want me to repack? > (y/N)". If the user answers "n" or simply , I don't like commands to be interactive if they don't _need_ to be so. It kills scripting, it makes it hard for a front-end (git gui or so) to use the command, ... -- Matthieu