From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Dmitry Neverov <dmitry.neverov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git gc removes all packs
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:14:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227131425.GA13005@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC+L6n3OFYsjm+5PMW3DBzJo7LnUsxRq1TRE4PMvFvWVG6DQ+A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:16:09AM +0100, Dmitry Neverov wrote:
> I followed your advice and removed a symlink ref from my repository.
> But didn't help.. automatic GC has just removed all packs again. May
> alternates cause such a behavior? Are any ways to make gc log
> somewhere why it removes packs?
If you have two repositories, A and B, and A points to B via alternates,
then you cannot safely run "git gc" in B unless it knows about all of
the refs in A. As we discussed before, symlinking the refs is not
enough, because those symlinks get stale. But nor is removing the
symlinks and just not knowing about the refs. :)
The only safe thing to do is to fetch all of the refs from A into B just
before running the gc (and consequently, you probably want to disable
gc.auto in B).
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-27 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 15:13 Git gc removes all packs Dmitry Neverov
2015-02-05 20:03 ` Jeff King
2015-02-17 16:39 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-17 16:55 ` Jeff King
2015-02-17 20:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-17 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-17 22:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-18 7:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-27 10:16 ` Dmitry Neverov
2015-02-27 13:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
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