Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] receive-pack: hint that the user can stop

Duy Nguyen <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:36 PM, chris <jugg <at> hotmail.com> wrote:

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Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

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Instead of adding a boolean --break-ok that is hidden, why not
adding an exposed boolean --daemonize, and let auto-gc run in the
background?  With the recent "do not let more than one gc run at the
same time", that should give a lot more pleasant end user
experience, no?

That sounds quite useful to me.  Duy, are you up for generating such a

patch?

It would not be so hard for that patch. I'm still thinking whether it
should be done if auto-gc is started on the client side too (sometimes
it does, which is equally annoying)..

That could be nice, but I'd be less concerned about that, as the client has
the ability to disable gc for itself.  Still pushing it into the background,
if considered acceptable behavior, seems reasonable.  Perhaps two separate
patches?

Chris