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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Also, make the default for refs packing just be an unambiguous "do it", 
> rather than "do it by default only for non-bare repositories". If you want 
> that behaviour, you can always just add a
>
> 	[gc]
> 		packrefs = notbare
>
> in your ~/.gitconfig file, but I don't actually see why bare would be any 
> different (except for the broken reason that http-fetching used to be 
> totally broken, and not doing it just meant that it didn't even get 
> fixed in a timely manner!).

Boy, you are a lot more aggressive than me.

But the fix was in v1.5.0 and we had two feature releases since
then, so it's a good time to do this.  Thanks.