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

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

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This patch does not add invocation of the "auto repacking".  It
is left to key Porcelain commands that could produce tons of
loose objects to add a call to "git gc --auto" after they are
done their work.  Obvious candidates are:

	git add

Nope!  'git add' creates loose objects which are not yet reachable from 
anywhere.  They won't get repacked until a commit is made.

Bzzt, I am releaved to see you are sometimes wrong ;-)

They are reachable from the index and are not subject to
pruning.

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	git fetch

I think that would be a much better idea to simply decrease the 
fetch.unpackLimit default value.

One thing that I find lacking in that auto patch is actually
that we should sometimes consolidate multiple small packs into a
single larger one.  Any behaviour change to encourage creation
of many tiny packs should be avoided until it materializes.

Probably we should introduce a built-in minimum value for a
positive gc.auto, somewhere around 1000 or so, for this reason.