From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lars Hjemli" Subject: Re: git branch performance problem? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:45:46 +0200 Message-ID: <8c5c35580710101445h232f9a67jd0c326b3b97ae3dd@mail.gmail.com> References: <8c5c35580710101344t3aed4214h4f999072483c4cb5@mail.gmail.com> <20071010213925.GB2963@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hanwen@xs4all.nl, git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 10 23:47:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfjOd-0003kw-5y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:47:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757765AbXJJVpz (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:45:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756976AbXJJVpy (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:45:54 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:52677 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757017AbXJJVpr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:45:47 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so306434rvb for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:45:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vgH5yRzF/tsN6EfAxs0Cdk1EJVr6zTbSYjnIQiktRj4=; b=E+oENwr/DfqCi0ld4A8Pw01UTAi7ej0b1Hm/MiQKOWoWjciv69DtWfd2hsbLp5NPpu4BSQN08RSkZe49BjFsjEyecs3uFUy6w5CwDgYW27Gc89Yc5Pe0V1OYkUOzH5UHU2HWyjpzHUYM9SbGL/VeaWCAobELZw8VcQ3iw7HXGXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mGMih2aqnTCdk1sGQSCkVjEwhl3MCLdsUKD6zC7uh5XR+Nvsp/kpzha1V4wMyYIpz1Gf+oWn0eTcHYYo7/o0F2b2HxaA5bqTxI1c53DakPINfQKTiltIfXOY/nzqFjjllbRdp3jtKD6IpnJq8R4znVJufhdJRXMsGYrHiS8AV9I= Received: by 10.115.55.1 with SMTP id h1mr1313900wak.1192052746197; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.235.4 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:45:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20071010213925.GB2963@fieldses.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/10/07, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > could it be that GC does not handle cyclic alternates correctly? > > Does it handle alternates at all? If you run git-gc on a repository > which other repositories get objects from, then my impression was that > bad things happen. > AFAIK 'git gc' is safe, while 'git gc --prune' will remove loose (unreferenced) objects. -- larsh