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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static const char builtin_gc_usage[] = "git-gc [--prune] [--aggressive]";
 
 static int pack_refs = 1;
 static int aggressive_window = -1;
+static int gc_auto_threshold = 6700;

Please don't do that.

When you share objects with another git directory, git-gc --auto can get 
rid of the objects when some objects go away in the referenced repository.  

I thought the whole point of "gc --auto" was to have something
that does not lose/prune any objects, even the ones that do not
seem to be referenced from anywhere.  That is why invocations of
"git gc --auto" do not say --prune as you saw the second patch,
and the repack command "gc --auto" runs is "repack -d -l"
instead of "repack -a -d -l", which means that it does run
git-prune-packed after repacking but not git-prune.

Maybe I am missing something...