From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: auto gc Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20071115082004.GL14735@spearce.org> References: <20071115081025.GC638@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 15 09:20:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsZxj-00020M-NS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755753AbXKOIUN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755341AbXKOIUM (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:12 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:33683 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752679AbXKOIUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:11 -0500 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IsZxI-0007pS-Fv; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:08 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E44D920FBAE; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:20:04 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071115081025.GC638@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jens Axboe 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.