[Trent W. Buck 2008-05-31] > After running etckeeper for a few months, I noticed that /etc/.git > constituted four fifths of my /etc tree. Running git-gc significantly > improved this ratio. I wish etckeeper did this automatically via a > cron.monthly or cron.weekly script.
[Joey Hess 2008-05-31] > Modern versions of git should automatically run git-gc once the number > of loose objects reaches a certian point, controlled by gc.auto. So a > cron job should only be necessary if you want to avoid git-gc being run > during a commit. (Which is sometimes annoying as it can be slow.. but > probably not for the small stuff in /etc.) I ran into this problem at work, where we use etckeeper, and the file systems with /etc/ ran out of inodes on serveral machines. After making some room (removed old kernels), I ran 'git gc' in /etc/ and 90% of the spent inodes came back. Are you sure the default is to automatically run gc when needed? If not, I would prefer gc done regularly, for example once per week. Perhaps a cron job in the etckeeper package is a good idea? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
