From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)
Date: 31 Oct 2005 18:34:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r7a1drji.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510311822080.27915@g5.osdl.org>
>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
Linus> Start a new branch before the sequence you want to clean
Linus> up. Then, move the cleaned-up history to that branch, and
Linus> eventually you can just delete the old one.
So if I toss something in git/refs, the objects pointed to by that are
eventually reclaimed? Do I need to git-fsck-objects to do that? Or
is there some cg command to do the whole thing?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 1:50 git versus CVS (versus bk) walt
2005-10-31 1:59 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-10-31 2:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-31 2:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 10:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-31 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 18:18 ` wa1ter
2005-10-31 19:44 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31 23:41 ` walt
2005-11-01 0:15 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-01 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 19:50 ` Joel Becker
2005-10-31 20:28 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-10-31 21:30 ` Joel Becker
2005-11-01 9:15 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-01 16:17 ` Joel Becker
2005-11-01 17:35 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-07 22:56 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-08 10:50 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-08 12:04 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-01 2:17 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-11-01 2:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 2:34 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2005-11-01 2:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 2:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-01 23:56 ` Horst von Brand
2005-11-02 8:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-02 9:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-31 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-31 21:36 ` Joel Becker
2005-10-31 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-31 22:42 ` Joel Becker
2005-11-01 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-01 0:42 ` Joel Becker
2005-11-01 1:02 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-01 1:29 ` Joel Becker
2005-11-01 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 9:17 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-01 13:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 0:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-11-01 9:08 ` hgmq vs. StGIT Petr Baudis
2005-11-01 9:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 10:10 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-01 17:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 15:20 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-01 15:36 ` Chris Mason
2005-11-01 17:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 18:13 ` Chris Mason
2005-11-01 21:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-02 15:41 ` Chris Mason
2005-11-05 20:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-09 23:32 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10 0:08 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-10 16:20 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 14:11 ` Chris Mason
2005-11-01 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 17:59 ` Chris Mason
2005-11-01 21:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-01 0:31 ` git versus CVS (versus bk) Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-31 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 13:00 ` wa1ter
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