From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F52145.306@nrlssc.navy.mil> (raw)
Since git-gc now always calls prune, even with --auto, unreferenced objects
may be removed by more operations than just git-gc. This is important for
clones created using --shared or --reference.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
---
Documentation/git-clone.txt | 12 ++++++++----
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 9758243..d3ab00b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -65,10 +65,12 @@ OPTIONS
+
*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
it unless you understand what it does. If you clone your
-repository using this option, then delete branches in the
-source repository and then run linkgit:git-gc[1] using the
-'--prune' option in the source repository, it may remove
-objects which are referenced by the cloned repository.
+repository using this option and then delete branches in the
+source repository, some objects may become unreferenced (or dangling).
+These objects may be removed by normal git operations (such as git-commit[1])
+which automatically call git-gc[1]. If these objects are removed and
+were referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository
+will become corrupt.
@@ -79,6 +81,8 @@ objects which are referenced by the cloned repository.
an already existing repository as an alternate will
require fewer objects to be copied from the repository
being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
++
+*NOTE*: see NOTE to --shared option.
--quiet::
-q::
--
1.5.5.rc3
next reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 18:26 Brandon Casey [this message]
2008-04-03 19:14 ` [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-03 20:51 ` Brandon Casey
2008-04-03 20:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-04 6:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-04 14:25 ` Brandon Casey
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