Re: [PATCH v2] gc: ignore old gc.log files

2017-02-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
David Turner writes: > The intent of automatic gc is to have a git repository be relatively > low-maintenance from a server-operator perspective. This is diametrically opposite from how I recall the auto-gc came about in Sep 2007. The primary purpose was to help desktop clients that never run

[PATCH v2] gc: ignore old gc.log files

2017-02-09 Thread David Turner
The intent of automatic gc is to have a git repository be relatively low-maintenance from a server-operator perspective. Of course, large operators like GitHub will need a more complicated management strategy, but for ordinary usage, git should just work. In this commit, git learns to ignore gc.l