From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: killing a branch Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20060110185932.GW3389@suse.de> References: <20060110102207.GP3389@suse.de> <7vr77g8jm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060110103533.GT3389@suse.de> <7vy81o73t2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060110112608.GU3389@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 10 19:58:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwOgs-0003vm-1Y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:57:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751180AbWAJS5p (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:57:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbWAJS5p (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:57:45 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:41327 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751180AbWAJS5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:57:44 -0500 Received: from [62.242.22.158] (helo=router.home.kernel.dk) by virtualhost.dk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1EwOgZ-0002dL-00; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:57:35 +0100 Received: from nelson.home.kernel.dk ([192.168.0.33] helo=kernel.dk) by router.home.kernel.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EwOgX-0003wD-EP; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:57:33 +0100 Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 99E1D253250; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:32 +0100 (CET) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid > > myself of that dirty dirty feeling. > > Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects > religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but > especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob" > messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to > the temporary merge object. > > So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally, > instead of compulsively every time. Compulsive is the right word, it just itches to run the prune after killing a branch... I'll try and learn as well. -- Jens Axboe