[Previously sent to the git-users mailing list, but it probably should
be addressed here.]
A number of commands invoke git gc --auto to clean up the repository
when there might be a lot of dangling objects and/or there might be
far too many unpacked files. The manual pages say:
git gc:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:36:53PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
And it appears from an experiment that this is what happens. I have a
repository with pack.packSizeLimit = 99m, and there are 104 pack
files, and even when git gc is done, if I do git gc --auto, it
will do git-repack again.
I
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
builtin/gc.c:
static int too_many_packs(void)
{
struct packed_git *p;
int cnt;
if (gc_auto_pack_limit = 0)
return 0;
prepare_packed_git();
for (cnt = 0, p = packed_git; p; p = p-next) {
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