From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gc and repack ignore .git/*HEAD when checking reachability
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:14:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8hsm4qu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160708064448.GA18043@x> (Josh Triplett's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2016 23:44:49 -0700")
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> That sounds reasonable. And if they *do* end up taking any time to
> traverse, it's because they weren't reachable from other anchoring
> points, so taking the extra time to traverse them seems fine.
The only thing that is hard is to clearly define _what_ are the new
anchoring points.
It cannot be "anything directly under .git that has all-caps name
that ends with _HEAD". The ones we write we know are going to be
removed at some point in time (e.g. "git reset", "git bisect reset",
"git merge --abort", etc.). We do not have any control on random
ones that the users and third-party tools leave behind, holding onto
irrelevant objects forever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 2:59 gc and repack ignore .git/*HEAD when checking reachability Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 4:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 6:44 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-08 19:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-08 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 23:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-09 5:23 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-09 7:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-09 14:09 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-09 16:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-10 10:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-10 11:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-10 14:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-10 15:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-11 6:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-11 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-12 10:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-12 15:26 ` Jeff King
2016-07-12 15:46 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12 15:51 ` Jeff King
2016-07-12 16:13 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 8:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-13 14:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 18:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-15 15:46 ` Duy Nguyen
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