... same basic purpose as git gc. IE to clean up unused ... I know this goes against the general mood here (which seems ... apparently don't > necessarily realize the importance of repacking. > > James Bottomley ... is to at least notify > people when they have way too ...

git - Govind Salinas - Sep 5 2007 - 12:47

... * from the user's point of view. Running git-gc is ... view makes it a waste of keystrokes and an annoying distraction ... to automatically optimize it in the future (this will launch processes ... user has to enable, people on low-memory machines can simply ...

git - Steven Grimm - Sep 5 2007 - 13:35

... , and I had > kind of assumed that people did it that way, ... ) after every import from p4 repo, because every snapshot of it is ... mess changing files all over the tree. Sometimes, after I merged a ... linux systems I just run git-gc whenever I please, without ...

git - Alex Riesen - Sep 5 2007 - 17:07

... . That is why invocations of > "git gc --auto" do not say -- ... fetch/pull", and while doing the "git gc --auto" will likely *delay* ... need to tell people to do a full git gc at some ... non-optimal packing decisions from the smaller packs). So I think the ...

git - Linus Torvalds - Sep 6 2007 - 14:15

... lose/prune any objects, even the ones that do not > seem ... That is why invocations of > "git gc --auto" do not say ... means that it does run > git-prune-packed after repacking but ... parallel with the gc. Both of which are important. -- Shawn. - To ...

git - Shawn O. Pearce - Sep 7 2007 - 00:48

... is used by multiple people... > Then the first one will kick ... to > start a repack at the same time. > Quite true, but ... bad enough state that the automatic git-gc is invoked. Old ... line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo ...

git - Steven Grimm - Sep 5 2007 - 05:07

... you're really concerned about people that don't want this ... performance problem whatsoever. So then the problems creep up gradually, and ... take care of repacking as convenient are the same people that ... loose object' and 'git gc' would fix the problem, then why ...

git - Carl Worth - Sep 5 2007 - 13:19

... , and I had > kind of assumed that people did it that way, ... s unsafe to do while the git-gc is running? - what are ... effort for me to postpone the whole thing to another day. ... repo. At which point one of my personal scripts immediately started ...

git - J. Bruce Fields - Sep 5 2007 - 13:44

... .org>: > I don't think the warning message alone is a ... take care of repacking as convenient are the same people that ... loose object' and 'git gc' would fix the > problem, then why ... time." Neither these messages nor the actions they propose _require_ users ...

git - Jing Xue - Sep 5 2007 - 13:55

... runs a lightweight version of "git gc". The primary difference from ... to add a call to "git gc --auto" after they are ... Hamano --- builtin-gc.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, ...

git - Junio C Hamano - Sep 5 2007 - 16:01

... +20,7 @@ static const char builtin_gc_usage[] = "git-gc [--prune] [--aggressive]"; > > static int pack_refs ... when some objects go away in the referenced repository. So we need _at ... message on top of the next release notes that people might want to ...

git - Johannes Schindelin - Sep 6 2007 - 11:54

... loose objects. Well independently from the fact that one could suppose ... it) flows like hell. And the repository grows larger and larger ... small cron that basically runs git gc each day, and an ... mistakes where people rebase some big parts of the tree many ...

git - Pierre Habouzit - Sep 5 2007 - 03:42

... manual says 'at the beginning of the day, >> run "git begin" to start ... the alias shouldn't be just "gc", but "find-all-repositories-and- ... a (trivial) script external to git. I suppose this can easily ... it easier to solve it (git gc --recursive in cron for ...

git - Matthieu Moy - Sep 5 2007 - 05:33

... added to the core git > porcelain. Perhaps a "git gc --recursive" ... for example). I'm a git newb so I can be ... Why --recursive? Why not use the submodule-information ? Johan - To unsubscribe ... line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo ...

git - Johan De Messemaeker - Sep 5 2007 - 10:17

... all our git trees in the middle of the night, and ... every >> existing pack before running the backup. >> >> This is probably a ... just put that in the documentation... ... which people then won't ... needed. I personally wonder if git-gc shouldn't use a ...

git - Nix - Sep 5 2007 - 14:22

... incremental) pack, rather than repacking the entire repository. Presumably that would ... as a second phase of "git gc --auto" -- it should be ... you'll accumulate a ton of medium-sized packs this way ... expect people to find out about running the full "git gc ...

git - Steven Grimm - Sep 6 2007 - 14:29

... ? YES! yikes. This is about the best argument put forth so ... about it). But even if git-gc was modified in this ... -gc --prune would still be necessary to remove all of the ... with a human thinking about the shared repo implications (unless shared ...

git - Brandon Casey - Sep 5 2007 - 14:46

... > set to a positive value, and the object database has accumulated > roughly that many ... , this runs a > lightweight version of "git gc". The primary difference from > the ... > only repack incrementally. We still do "git prune-packed". A big part of the ...

git - Nicolas Pitre - Sep 5 2007 - 16:35

... unreachable (thus pruneable) objects in .git/objects/17/ then this is ... running into this problem in git-gui. On Windows it suggests ... restage a different version of it. The prior one is never ... have *never* run `git gc --prune` because the auto thing is ...

git - Shawn O. Pearce - Sep 5 2007 - 22:45

... have a sneakier place to invoke gc. > > Whenever $EDITOR gets invoked. Heck, whenever git is waiting for any user input, ... in that it won't affect people who just follow a project's ... the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger ...

git - Andreas Ericsson - Sep 6 2007 - 05:28