Re: auto gc

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
...
> Packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also
> run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.
> Generating pack...
> [...]
> 
> This is extremely annoying behaviour! If I'm on battery or just in a bit
> of a hurry, I defeinitely don't want git second guessing me and deciding
> that it's time to run git gc.
> 
> I'd suggest just printing a hint that running git gc would increase
> performance, doing it automatically is definitely bad style (even more
> so when then yet again changed git refs layout even breaks old scripts,
> when git gc has run).

Set the following and it won't run automatically anymore for you:

	git config --global gc.auto 0
	git config --global gc.autopacklimit 0

More recently this message has been changed to:

  Packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also
  run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.

The two options noted above are described in the manual for git-gc.

- 
Shawn.