From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: auto gc again Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20080320060030.GE17940@kernel.dk> References: <20080318180118.GC17940@kernel.dk> <20080318181948.GH17940@kernel.dk> <20080318182421.GI17940@kernel.dk> <20080318183906.GL17940@kernel.dk> <20080319211436.GC17940@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 20 07:01:19 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 1JcDq0-00063Y-IV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:01:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753345AbYCTGAg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:00:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753332AbYCTGAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:00:35 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:15820 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753312AbYCTGAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:00:35 -0400 Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2FEE3257AC9; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:32 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > > > But you never answer the question on whether you really consider any > > > > form of autopacking or auto gc sane? Next time some other limit is > > > > added for auto gc, it'll be annoying once more. > > > > > > The problem is: if people do not bother to "git gc" their > > > repositories, git operations get slow. We just had enough of that, > > > and decided to "git gc" automatically for people who did not know > > > about it, or were to lazy and then complained about git for being > > > slow. > > > > Sorry I disagree, > > In this case, you can disagree as much as you want and you are still > wrong. You are catering to the wrong end of the scale, nothing good comes of that in the longer run. > The problem is that you are more intelligent than most others, and now you > experience the downsides of it. Whatever. If you don't have something worthwhile to say, please don't respond. -- Jens Axboe