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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive description
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:52:01 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805131251320.30431@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210672413-8761-1-git-send-email-pdebie@ai.rug.nl>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Pieter de Bie wrote:

> The documentation for the --aggressive flag was misleading, hinting that 
> running git gc with --aggressive is a good thing. However, --aggressive 
> only really makes sense if you have a bad pack file, such as from 
> git-fast-import.

I disagree.  It makes sense to "git gc --aggressive" also after cloning 
from somebody who did not do so.

Ciao,
Dscho

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-13  9:53 [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive description Pieter de Bie
2008-05-13 10:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-13 11:08   ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-13 11:53     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-13 15:03       ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-13 11:13   ` Pieter de Bie
2008-05-13 11:52 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-05-14  6:48   ` Pieter de Bie
2008-05-14  7:48     ` Matthieu Moy
2008-05-24 19:03     ` Pieter de Bie

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