From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Make "git gc" pack all refs by default Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:28:41 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 24 21:28:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrIzO-0003TF-VR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 21:28:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751206AbXEXT2p (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 15:28:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751190AbXEXT2o (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 15:28:44 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42993 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751096AbXEXT2o (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 15:28:44 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 May 2007 19:28:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 24 May 2007 21:28:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190hi1R0Z10du+sfVNbG2lmJ2qQLwqt5AV7cOgdpj 0vg1+Igs291yWl X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 24 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've taught myself to use "git gc" instead of doing the repack explicitly, > but it doesn't actually do what I think it should do. > > We've had packed refs for a long time now, and I think it just makes sense > to pack normal branches too. FWIW I already suggested that: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/28533 Since there seemed not much interest in that, I let it slip. Ciao, Dscho