Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

diff --git a/builtin-gc.c b/builtin-gc.c
index 956c32d1af66444dae26a705159beba9adb7aba7..f99b212ca47b13741c1e087b6ec75b9861c11e38 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-gc.c
+++ b/builtin-gc.c
@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                prune = 0;
                if (!need_to_gc())
                        return 0;
+               fprintf(stderr, "Packing your repository for optimum "
+                       "performance. If you would rather run\n"
+                       "\"git gc\" by hand, run \"git config gc.auto 0\" "
+                       "to disable automatic cleanup.\n");
        } else {
                /*
                 * Use safer (for shared repos) "-A" option to