Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/gc: warn when core.commitGraph is disabled

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 13:55:53 +0200

On Mon, May 10 2021, [email-masked] wrote:

> From: Li Linchao <[email-masked]>
>
> Throw warning message when core.commitGraph is disabled in commit-graph
> maintenance task.

Won't this cause the gc.log issue noted in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

More importantly, I don't think this UX makes sense. We said we didn't
want it, so why warn about it?

Maybe there are good reasons to, but this commit message / patch doesn't
make the case for it...

> Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  builtin/gc.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c
> index 98a803196b..90684ca3b3 100644
> --- a/builtin/gc.c
> +++ b/builtin/gc.c
> @@ -861,8 +861,10 @@ static int run_write_commit_graph(struct maintenance_run_opts *opts)
>  static int maintenance_task_commit_graph(struct maintenance_run_opts *opts)
>  {
>  	prepare_repo_settings(the_repository);
> -	if (!the_repository->settings.core_commit_graph)
> +	if (!the_repository->settings.core_commit_graph) {
> +		warning(_("skipping commit-graph task because core.commitGraph is disabled"));
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	close_object_store(the_repository->objects);
>  	if (run_write_commit_graph(opts)) {