Subject: Re: Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase.

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:39:34 -0400

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The point of auto gc is to pack new objects created in loose
> format, so a good rule of thumb is where we do update-ref after
> creating a new commit.
...
>  git-am.sh                  |    2 ++
>  git-commit.sh              |    1 +
>  git-merge.sh               |    1 +
>  git-rebase--interactive.sh |    2 ++
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
...
> diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> index abc2b1c..8258b7a 100755
> --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> @@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ do_next () {
>  	rm -rf "$DOTEST" &&
>  	warn "Successfully rebased and updated $HEADNAME."
>  
> +	git gc --auto
> +
>  	exit
>  }

Why bother with git-rebase--interactive.sh?  It calls two tools,
git-cherry-pick (which calls git-commit) and git-commit to do its
per-commit dirty work.  So on every step of `git rebase -i` we are
now running `git gc --auto`.  No need to also run it at the end.

Note this is also true of `git rebase -m` as that uses the wonderful
feature of `git commit -C $oldid` per commit to make the new commit.
 
-- 
Shawn.