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

Steven Grimm [off-list ref] writes:

The fact that git sometimes stores your files individually in the .git
directory and sometimes bundles them together into big archives should
be an implementation detail that end-users don't have to worry about
day to day...

[alias]
        begin = gc
	leave = gc

That is, the user's manual says 'at the beginning of the day,
run "git begin" to start the day, and at the end of day, run
"git leave" to conclude your day', without saying why ;-)

On 9/5/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

[alias]
        begin = gc
        leave = gc

That is, the user's manual says 'at the beginning of the day,
run "git begin" to start the day, and at the end of day, run
"git leave" to conclude your day', without saying why ;-)

I actually like that one ;-)

Anyway - this is turning out to be a bit of a bikeshed-painting event.
You guys should google earlier discussions on this very same subject.
They have always ended in "automatic=bad", "warning=good", and
"careful or you might be called an idiot" before ;-)

cheers,


martin