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From: David Kastrup <dak@...>

To: Brandon Casey <casey@...>

Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Git Mailing List <git@...>

Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - 3:09 pm

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

quoted text> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>> Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely
>> run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in
>> particular,
>>
>> 	- does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I
>> 	  cloned with -s?
>
>     YES! yikes.
>
> This is about the best argument put forth so far for not
> automatically running git-gc.

Well, it could also mean that if git finds a dead symbolic link when
looking up an object, it should check the corresponding link target
directory for a pack file with the respective object...  and if it
finds such a pack file, create a link to it and use it.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Sep 5, 3:09 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Alex Riesen, (Wed Sep 5, 5:07 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed Sep 5, 1:44 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Brandon Casey, (Wed Sep 5, 2:46 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, David Kastrup, (Wed Sep 5, 3:09 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Mike Hommey, (Wed Sep 5, 3:20 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed Sep 5, 3:13 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, David Kastrup, (Wed Sep 5, 3:43 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Govind Salinas, (Wed Sep 5, 12:47 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Steven Grimm, (Wed Sep 5, 1:35 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nix, (Wed Sep 5, 2:28 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Carl Worth, (Wed Sep 5, 1:19 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Jing Xue, (Wed Sep 5, 1:55 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, David Kastrup, (Wed Sep 5, 4:16 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Pierre Habouzit, (Wed Sep 5, 3:42 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nix, (Wed Sep 5, 1:51 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Steven Grimm, (Wed Sep 5, 2:14 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nix, (Wed Sep 5, 2:22 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Sep 5, 2:54 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 4:01 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Sep 6, 11:54 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Sep 6, 1:49 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Sep 7, 6:12 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Shawn O. Pearce, (Fri Sep 7, 12:48 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Sep 6, 2:15 pm)

Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Sep 6, 7:12 pm)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Andy Parkins, (Fri Sep 7, 3:24 am)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Johannes Sixt, (Fri Sep 7, 3:11 am)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Sep 7, 3:34 am)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Sep 6, 8:51 pm)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Sep 7, 12:43 am)

[PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Sep 8, 6:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked, Shawn O. Pearce, (Sat Sep 8, 10:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked, Junio C Hamano, (Sun Sep 9, 1:04 am)

Re: [PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked, Nicolas Pitre, (Sun Sep 9, 8:29 am)

Re: [PATCH] pack-objects --repack-unpacked, Shawn O. Pearce, (Sun Sep 9, 1:49 pm)

[PATCH] make sha1_file.c::matches_pack_name() available to o..., Junio C Hamano, (Sat Sep 8, 5:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] make sha1_file.c::matches_pack_name() available ..., Nicolas Pitre, (Sat Sep 8, 9:56 pm)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Shawn O. Pearce, (Fri Sep 7, 12:07 am)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Sep 6, 9:58 pm)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Sep 6, 10:32 pm)

Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Sep 6, 7:35 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Steven Grimm, (Thu Sep 6, 2:29 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Shawn O. Pearce, (Wed Sep 5, 10:45 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Steven Grimm, (Wed Sep 5, 10:49 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Shawn O. Pearce, (Wed Sep 5, 10:56 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Alex Riesen, (Wed Sep 5, 5:18 pm)

[PATCH] Invoke "git gc --auto" from "git add" and "git fetch", Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 4:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Invoke "git gc --auto" from "git add" and "git f..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Sep 6, 8:02 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Sep 5, 4:35 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 5:49 pm)

Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 5:59 pm)

Re: Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase., Shawn O. Pearce, (Wed Sep 5, 10:39 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 5:46 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, David Kastrup, (Thu Sep 6, 1:55 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Sep 5, 7:04 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 7:42 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Carlos Rica, (Wed Sep 5, 8:27 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Nix, (Wed Sep 5, 5:14 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Steven Grimm, (Wed Sep 5, 4:50 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, David Kastrup, (Wed Sep 5, 5:13 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Pierre Habouzit, (Wed Sep 5, 5:14 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 5:07 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Martin Langhoff, (Wed Sep 5, 5:27 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Matthieu Moy, (Wed Sep 5, 5:33 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Johan De Messemaeker, (Wed Sep 5, 10:17 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Matthieu Moy, (Wed Sep 5, 1:31 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Jeff King, (Wed Sep 5, 7:56 pm)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 4:16 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Sep 5, 3:30 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Sep 5, 4:51 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Johan Herland, (Wed Sep 5, 4:13 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Matthieu Moy, (Wed Sep 5, 4:39 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Pierre Habouzit, (Wed Sep 5, 4:51 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Matthieu Moy, (Wed Sep 5, 5:04 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Johan Herland, (Wed Sep 5, 4:41 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Tomash Brechko, (Wed Sep 5, 3:26 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Martin Langhoff, (Wed Sep 5, 3:21 am)

Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?, Karl , (Wed Sep 5, 3:37 am)

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