assistant: Prevent automatic commits from causing git-gc runs, as that can make things quite slow. Instead, git-gc --auto is run once a day. (This can be disabled by the usual gc.auto=0 setting.)

Assistant/Threads/Committer.hs

@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ commitStaged = do
 		Right _ -> do
 			direct <- isDirect
 			let params = nomessage $ catMaybes
-				[ Just $ Param "commit"
+				[ Just $ Param "-c", Just $ Param "gc.auto=0"
+				, Just $ Param "commit"
 				, Just $ Param "--quiet"
 				{- In indirect mode, avoid running the
 				 - usual git-annex pre-commit hook;