Re: Fetching everything in another bare repo

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:57:18PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> > I will also say that while I implemented this extension a while back, it
> > never actually saw production use for my intended case. So I think it's
> > pretty good (and certainly safer than nothing), but it's not thoroughly
> > tested in the wild.
> 
> We use it in grokmirror for objstore repositories [1] (the super-parents of
> all forks), as a precautionary measure against a sysadmin running any kind of
> manual operation that may result in loose objects being deleted. I do believe
> it works well for that purpose.

Ah, cool, thanks for letting us know. That's pretty much the same case I
wrote it for (GitHub's shared-object-store fork repositories), but
deployment got hung up on compatibility issues (since we used libgit2,
as well). And then I never got around to it, and nobody seems to have
cared too much. It's a nice safety to have, but I don't recall a single
instance of an unintended naive gc ever destroying things. :)

-Peff