From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Hosting Git repositories: how useful will git-gc be? Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:25 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 03 11:48:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mj8vq-0007qj-Nd for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:48:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754796AbZICJs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:48:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754749AbZICJs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:48:26 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:59922 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754340AbZICJsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:48:25 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n839jdBu016424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:45:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Mj8sf-0007Bx-4o; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:25 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mj8sf-0003tW-3a; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:25 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm helping my sysadmin to set up some Git repository hosting via gitosis. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. A question: is it necessary/recommanded/useless to set up a cron job doing a "git gc" in each repository? My understanding is that a push through ssh will do some packing, is it correct? Does receiving a pack trigger a "git gc --auto"? Thanks, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/