On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 06:31:54PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>> This means we can write this simply as: >> >> doesnt_matter=$(git gc --auto 9>&1) >> >> It's still hackery :) > > Heh. Yeah, I would call that _more_ hackery in that it's much more > clever. But it is shorter. :) > > I think as long as the trickery is documented that's OK (and calling it > doesnt_matter and explaining in the commit message is fine by me; > hopefully that name would induce somebody to look in the history). For the sake of self documentation and potential future users, I will put it into a helper function like run_and_wait_for_detached_auto_gc() or something. Jury is still out on the proper function name (it would be a shame if the funcname were longer than the command ;), but time is up for today...
