Re: auto gc again

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

On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> >> But freshly pulled repo, git auto gc is enabled. And that is my main
> >> annoyance, I just don't think that type of policy should be in there.
> > 
> > Just do this once:
> > 
> > 	git config --global gc.auto 0
> > 	git config --global gc.autopacklimit 0
> 
> Is there any reason why gc.auto=0 couldn't be used to disable auto
> packing entirely?
> 
> Said differently, are there valid use cases where one might want automatic
> repacking based on the number of packs but _not_ based on the number of
> loose objects?
> 
> If the answer is "no", then "gc.auto=0 means completely disable auto-gc"
> seems intuitive and would have protected Jens in this case.

Totally agree, makes a lot more sense.

-- 
Jens Axboe