Re: documentation for committing with git

On 04/08/10 16:50, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 09:29 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> All those issues can be avoided if you only run "git gc" when all the
>> working directories are in a clean state, with no staged but
>> uncommitted changes or other funny things. I can live with that gun
>> tied to my ankle ;-).
>
> But to make sure of that I think you need to prevent git commands from
> running gc automatically:
>
> git config gc.auto 0
>
> or possibly
>
> git config --global gc.auto 0
>
> And you'll need to make sure you run gc yourself from time to time.

Good idea. I'll add that to the wiki. I don't like the automatic garbage
collection anyway, it always kicks in when I'm doing something, and I
end up interrupting it anyway.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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