From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: killing a branch Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:12:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20060110102207.GP3389@suse.de> <7vr77g8jm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060110103533.GT3389@suse.de> <7vy81o73t2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060110112608.GU3389@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 10 18:13:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwN3T-0001gN-NB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:13:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932270AbWAJRNE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:13:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbWAJRND (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:13:03 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:49879 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932270AbWAJRNB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:13:01 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0AHCsDZ019470 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:12:54 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0AHCrMB002945; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:12:53 -0800 To: Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20060110112608.GU3389@suse.de> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.64__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid > myself of that dirty dirty feeling. Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob" messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to the temporary merge object. So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally, instead of compulsively every time. Linus