From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 09/21] Remember how a Ref was read in from disk and created Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:51:05 +0200 Message-ID: <200806291551.06201.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <1214726371-93520-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1214726371-93520-9-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1214726371-93520-10-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Marek Zawirski , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 29 15:56:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCxO6-00053M-Pg for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:56:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756206AbYF2NzW convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:55:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755902AbYF2NzW (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:55:22 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:10677 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755899AbYF2NzW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:55:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A75D802E18; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:55:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3BjSw8znA315; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:55:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CCB8006B7; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:55:19 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <1214726371-93520-10-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: s=F6ndagen den 29 juni 2008 09.59.19 skrev Shawn O. Pearce: > To efficiently deleted or update a ref we need to know where > it came from when it was read into the process. If the ref > is being updated we can usually just write the loose file, > but if it is being deleted we may need to remove not just a > loose file but also delete it from the packed-refs. One could argue that we should not normally just delete a ref, but mark it as deleted and let git gc delete it when it expires, just like any old ref, but then we should try to get C Git to do the same. There was a thread relating to this recently. -- robi