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From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: gc getting called on each git command ... what's wrong?
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:48:29 -0400
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
> As of today, almost every time I do a git command, gc is getting
> invoked.

>  =A0There are 96 pack files.

That's why. See gc.autopacklimit in "git help config" -- by default,
git will gc if there are more than 50 pack files.

Peter Harris