Re: auto gc again

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But you never answer the question on whether you really consider any 
> > > > form of autopacking or auto gc sane? Next time some other limit is 
> > > > added for auto gc, it'll be annoying once more.
> > > 
> > > The problem is: if people do not bother to "git gc" their 
> > > repositories, git operations get slow.  We just had enough of that, 
> > > and decided to "git gc" automatically for people who did not know 
> > > about it, or were to lazy and then complained about git for being 
> > > slow.
> > 
> > Sorry I disagree,
> 
> In this case, you can disagree as much as you want and you are still 
> wrong.

You are catering to the wrong end of the scale, nothing good comes of
that in the longer run.

> The problem is that you are more intelligent than most others, and now you 
> experience the downsides of it.

Whatever. If you don't have something worthwhile to say, please don't
respond.

-- 
Jens Axboe