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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not run git-pack-refs by default for now from git-gc
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:29:51 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:03:32AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> It seems to me that the reason are dumb transports, which are very likely 
> to run only from bare repositories. How about checking for a bare 
> repository explicitely, and only if it _is_ bare, check for gc.packrefs, 
> too?

The way you have stated it, I think we will get a lot of "I set
gc.packrefs, but it doesn't do anything!" complaints. I think a
tri-state "yes/no/notbare" defaulting to "notbare" makes more sense. But
maybe you meant the other way around in the first place.

-Peff