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Re: Git and GCC
On 12/6/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
> > Actually, it turns out that git-gc --aggressive does this dumb thing
> > to pack files sometimes regardless of whether you converted from an
> > SVN repo or not.
> I'll send a patch to Junio to just remove the "git gc --aggressive"
> documentation. It can be useful, but it generally is useful only when you
> really understand at a very deep level what it's doing, and that
> documentation doesn't help you do that.
No disrespect is meant by this reply. I am just curious (and I am
probably misunderstanding something).. Why remove all of the
documentation entirely? Wouldn't it be better to just document it
more thoroughly? I thought you did a fine job in this post in
explaining its purpose, when to use it, when not to, etc. Removing
the documention seems counter-intuitive when you've already gone to
the trouble of creating good documentation here in this post.