From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: notify alternative to auto gc?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:27:18 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277864838.23613.18.camel@wilber> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil8sHZrfvHetwzjhOsyprsqrf7-XRS3B8qKH7cs@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 16:26 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:10, Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The git help tells me I can disable it by setting gc.auto to 0, while the mailing list archive tells me I also have to set gc.autopacklimit to 0. This is fine, but if I do that, I won't know when the repo is in need of cleanup. Is there any option I can set to instruct it to simply TELL me when it's in need of gc?
>
> Anything that tells you whether you need to gc would incur much of the
> speed penalty that running gc itself does.
See builtin/gc.c:too_many_loose_objects
Checking that gc is required involves opening one directory (objects/17
IIRC), reading all of the entries in it and counting them. It really
doesn't hurt.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 16:10 notify alternative to auto gc? Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 16:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-28 16:52 ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-29 6:46 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-30 2:27 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2010-06-28 16:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-28 16:29 ` Chris Packham
2010-06-28 16:56 ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 17:07 ` [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Chris Packham
2010-06-28 18:43 ` Marc Branchaud
2010-06-29 15:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 16:00 ` Chris Packham
2010-06-29 16:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 18:16 ` Chris Packham
2010-06-30 20:41 ` [PATCHv2] " Chris Packham
2010-09-21 18:14 ` [PATCH/RFC] " David Brown
2010-09-21 20:52 ` Allow git remote add but not git clone ( was Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks) Chris Packham
2010-09-21 21:01 ` David Brown
2010-09-21 23:18 ` Re* [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Junio C Hamano
2010-06-28 18:58 ` notify alternative to auto gc? Eric Raible
2010-06-28 19:02 ` Jacob Helwig
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