From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20090817075012.GA3437@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20090816122842.GA942@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20090816135703.GA31638@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vmy5z603d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1250475682.7155.16.camel@marge.simson.net> <20090817064801.GA31543@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v63cm3ntl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090817072559.GA9730@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v1vna3nae.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Mike Galbraith , Johannes Schindelin , Jon Jensen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 17 09:50:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mcwz1-0001XG-8c for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:50:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757065AbZHQHuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757063AbZHQHuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:13 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:60219 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753583AbZHQHuM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:12 -0400 Received: (qmail 29134 invoked by uid 107); 17 Aug 2009 07:50:17 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:17 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:50:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v1vna3nae.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:35:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Did you miss the part where I asked "should we include instructions to > > the user on how to fix this"? > > Actually, I didn't. It is very hard to lose data once you put it in git; > "by following recovery insn the user can redo" is often trivially correct > thanks to it. > > But it is not a very good option to cause the damage and then give > recovery insn. The user might have ran out of quota, and even if he > didn't, he wasted needless cycles for the unwanted sort of repacking. OK, let's forget the warning, then. Hopefully between the note under "clone -s" and the fact that most people should be using "git gc" these days, it won't be a big issue. -Peff