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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: notify alternative to auto gc?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:26:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil8sHZrfvHetwzjhOsyprsqrf7-XRS3B8qKH7cs@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA7717AE-DA72-48D7-A27E-C958896FD158@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:10, Karl Stenerud <kstenerud@gmail.com> wrote:
> The git help tells me I can disable it by setting gc.auto to 0, while the mailing list archive tells me I also have to set gc.autopacklimit to 0.  This is fine, but if I do that, I won't know when the repo is in need of cleanup.  Is there any option I can set to instruct it to simply TELL me when it's in need of gc?

Anything that tells you whether you need to gc would incur much of the
speed penalty that running gc itself does.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28 16:10 notify alternative to auto gc? Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 16:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-06-28 16:52   ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-29  6:46     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-30  2:27   ` Sam Vilain
2010-06-28 16:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-28 16:29 ` Chris Packham
2010-06-28 16:56   ` Karl Stenerud
2010-06-28 17:07   ` [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Chris Packham
2010-06-28 18:43     ` Marc Branchaud
2010-06-29 15:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 16:00         ` Chris Packham
2010-06-29 16:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-29 18:16       ` Chris Packham
2010-06-30 20:41         ` [PATCHv2] " Chris Packham
2010-09-21 18:14     ` [PATCH/RFC] " David Brown
2010-09-21 20:52       ` Allow git remote add but not git clone ( was Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks) Chris Packham
2010-09-21 21:01         ` David Brown
2010-09-21 23:18       ` Re* [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-gc.txt: add reference to githooks Junio C Hamano
2010-06-28 18:58   ` notify alternative to auto gc? Eric Raible
2010-06-28 19:02     ` Jacob Helwig

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