From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: auto gc again Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:01:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20080318180118.GC17940@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 19 20:45:15 2008 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 1Jc4Ce-0002JK-Qd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:44:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757932AbYCSTmN (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757906AbYCSTmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:06 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:26259 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757872AbYCSTl7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:41:59 -0400 Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 51) id 45A27257FA2; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:41:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 500) id D9E8C258778; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:01:18 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Could we please PLEASE kill this auto gc thing? I've complained about this in the past and disabled it through the gc.auto config entry, however now git seems to be happily auto running gc even with gc.auto=0. So there's probably some new magic I need to know. But the new magic is really beside the point. Doing this 'for you' is extremely annoying behaviour. I often work on my notebook, so disk is both slow and battery is precious. I DON'T want gc to run automatically, EVER. Not on repos I have had going for ages, not on ones I just cloned. Please bury this silly policy and replace it with a printf() telling me that I may increase my performance by running git gc. Don't just do it. git does not know better. -- Jens Axboe