Or committing large binaries frequently, but yes. Totally agreed. GC manually unless you're dealing with scale where you know precisely how much it helps you.

Or committing large binaries frequently, but yes. Totally agreed. GC manually unless you're dealing with scale where you know precisely how much it helps you. Otherwise it's safer and easier to not do it, and the disk space is utterly inconsequential (and trivial to find and `git gc` if it proves otherwise). You can afford a few more megabytes every year or so.