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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:52:01 +0100 (BST)
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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