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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prune: --expire=time
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:01:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070121220114.GA24729@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vejpo39zg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:17:07AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If we wanted to apply this grace period conservatively,
> protecting young objects is not enough.  You need to protect
> everything they refer to as well.  In the above scenario, you

That's not sufficient either. You might not _have_ the young objects
yet, think the blob is dangling, and delete it. Meanwhile, the tree that
references it arrives. IOW,
  1. blob B arrives, but already exists
  2. prune deletes unreference and old blob B
  3. tree T arrives, referencing blob B
I think this might be safe if you add objects in a top-down way (i.e., T
before B). However, that doesn't make sense for the commit operation, in
which you add blobs (with git-add), and then eventually construct a
tree.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-18 17:18 [PATCH] prune-packed: new option --min-age=N Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-18 17:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 17:42   ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-18 17:51     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 22:29       ` [RFC] prune: --expire=seconds Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-18 22:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-19  3:44           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-19 10:49             ` [PATCH] prune: --expire=time Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-19 15:41               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-19 19:18               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 11:18                 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-21  6:55                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21  7:53                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-21 10:37                     ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-01-21 11:17                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 22:01                         ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-01-22  1:38                           ` Steven Grimm
2007-01-22  1:52                             ` Jeff King
2007-01-22  2:06                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22  2:23                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-22  2:40                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22  2:58                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-22  5:17                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22  6:26                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-22  6:57                                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-22  7:12                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22  9:32                                         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22  3:26                                     ` [PATCH] v1.5.0.txt: update description of git-gc Jeff King
2007-01-22  2:03                             ` [PATCH] prune: --expire=time Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 12:06                 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert

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