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

Pierre Habouzit [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:39:52AM +0000, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:

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When git-fetch and git-commit has done its job and is about to exit, it checks 
the number of loose object, and if too high tells the user something 
like "There are too many loose objects in the repo, do you want me to repack? 
(y/N)". If the user answers "n" or simply <Enter>,

I don't like commands to be interactive if they don't _need_ to be so.
It kills scripting, it makes it hard for a front-end (git gui or so)
to use the command, ...

  There is absolutely no problem here, as it can be avoided if the
output is not a tty.

Which output?  stdout?  stderr?  Where is the question appearing?
What if the command has been started in the background?  What if stdin
(not stdout) is from a pipe, maybe for taking a commit message?  What
if stdin is from a pseudo-tty because the commit has been started with
an internal shell command inside of Emacs, and the command/message
will only get echoed once git-commit completes?

It's not _that_ hard to guess if you're currently running in a
script or in an interactive shell after all.

Oh, it is not hard to _guess_.  Just throw a die.  What is hard is to
_know_ 100% sure that one is doing the right thing and not breaking
any legitimate use.

-- 
David Kastrup