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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Adeodato Simó" <dato@net.com.org.es>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Confusing text in git-prune.txt
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:56:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4970BC25.7020007@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090116165013.GA14196@chistera.yi.org>

Adeodato Simó schrieb:
> From git-prune.txt:
> 
>     [...] prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of
>     these head objects from the object database. In addition,
>     it prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     running git-prune-packed.
> 
> How can "unpacked objects" be "found in packs"?

An object can exist more than once in the database. prune-packed removes
the loose (unpacked) instance of the object if it also available in a pack.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16 16:50 Confusing text in git-prune.txt Adeodato Simó
2009-01-16 16:56 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-01-16 17:02   ` Adeodato Simó

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