Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Sven Axelsson]

On 7 January 2014 19:05, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>,
>>     address@hidden,
>>     address@hidden,
>>     address@hidden,
>>     address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:24:02 +0900
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>>
>>  > > See git-gc(1)
>>
>> git-gc does not necessarily repack existing packs according to the
>> doc.
>>
>> Try git-repack.
>
> I thought "git gc" runs git-repack, no?

No. git-repack is often a very expensive operation, so it is never run
automatically, which git-gc can be.

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