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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: David Steven Tweed <d.s.tweed@reading.ac.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, nico@cam.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:02:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vve52z9lf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0802051844220.15867@suma3> (David Steven Tweed's message of "Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:49:31 +0000 (GMT)")

David Steven Tweed <d.s.tweed@reading.ac.uk> writes:

> Write errors when repacking (eg, due to out-of-space conditions)
> can leave temporary packs (and possibly other files beginning
> with "tmp_") lying around which no existing
> codepath removes and which aren't obvious to the casual user.
> These can also be multi-megabyte files wasting noticeable space.
> Unfortunately there's no way to definitely tell in builtin-prune
> that a tmp_ file is not being used by a concurrent process.
> However, it is documented that pruning should only be done
> on a quiet repository. The names of removed files are printed.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Tweed (david.tweed@gmail.com)
> ---
>
> Per discussion of previous version, this now unconditionally
> removes any tmp_ file existing when prune is run.

Sorry, can't apply

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 18:49 [PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures David Steven Tweed
2008-02-05 19:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-05 20:06   ` [PATCH] prune: heed --expire for stale packs, add a test Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-05 20:13     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-06  5:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06  7:41         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-06 14:12         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-06 20:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 16:48   ` [PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures Brandon Casey
2008-02-06 18:59     ` David Tweed
2008-02-06 19:41       ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-06 19:57         ` David Tweed
2008-02-06 20:07           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-06 20:43           ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-06 19:10   ` David Tweed
2008-02-06 19:31     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-06 20:02       ` David Tweed
2008-02-06 20:16         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-06 20:25           ` David Tweed
2008-02-06 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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