Re: [PATCH] git-am: Run git gc only once and not for every patch.

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:

quoted

With "too many unreachable loose objects" git gc --auto will always
trigger. This clutters the output of git am and thus git rebase.

The work flow of the Wine project doesn't include git merge. git rebase
is therefor used to track the origin. This will produce soon too many
loose objects for git gc --auto's taste. Pruning the repository would
"fix" it. But we tell Wine developers new to git to NOT prune as long as
they aren't confident enough with git; just as a safety net in case they
have thrown away month of work.

The safety is the reflog.  What it refers to doesn't get pruned.

What Nico said.

More importantly, ones who are not confident with git would not
be able to resurrect unreachables that are left unpruned anyway.
The unreachables are by definition not connected to anything, so
they cannot do much better than grepping through droppings left
by "fsck --lost-found", which they probably even do not know how
to do yet.