How to Prevent Garbage Collection in GIT?

Question

Git mysteriously runs Garbage collection \"from time to time\" and deletes and orphaned commits you have.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.htm

Answer 1

I found this answer because I was trying to prevent git from running git gc in the background, because it was messing with other operations I was trying to perform on the repo. It turns out you can specifically disable the backgrounding behaviour with

$ git config gc.autodetach false