From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: dangling commits Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20060116093249.8F939353A3F@atlas.denx.de> References: <20060116085238.GA3768@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 16 10:33:04 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 1EyQjU-0004w9-U2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:33:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932303AbWAPJc5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:32:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932281AbWAPJc5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:32:57 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:54691 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932303AbWAPJcz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:32:55 -0500 Received: from mail01.m-online.net (svr21.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5F771513; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:50 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: EAoUjpZ80DM/q8Jrvnusiunvrz1Q7T8CTvtBtnIRn7E= X-Auth-Info: EAoUjpZ80DM/q8Jrvnusiunvrz1Q7T8CTvtBtnIRn7E= Received: from mail.denx.de (p54966EA7.dip.t-dialin.net [84.150.110.167]) by smtp-auth.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AD0B80D4; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from atlas.denx.de (atlas.denx.de [10.0.0.14]) by mail.denx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDE36D006D; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from atlas.denx.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by atlas.denx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F939353A3F; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:49 +0100 (MET) To: Marco Roeland In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:52:38 +0100." <20060116085238.GA3768@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: In message <20060116085238.GA3768@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> you wrote: > > Note that apart from the disk space they use up, dangling commits don't > do any harm. I like to have my repository "clean" so there are no warnings normally from git-fsck-objects - if you get used to expect some "harmless" messages you might easily miss a critical error. > However you can easily get rid of them by using "git prune". Tried this, didn't work. > As far as I know although packs are used in transferring the commits to > your local repository they are stored there as separate objects, so you Ummm... please have a look at the .git/objects/pack/ directory for example in your Linux repository. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong. -- Chris Torek