From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ok for git to delete temporary packs on write error?
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:01:42 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711281000590.9605@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1dab3980711272342x7afad721m113fe21f6879a886@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, David Tweed wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to check if there's any reason in the overall design of
> git which would make deleting tmp_pack's that have suffered
> write errors a bad idea? (Before I look further into this I may be missing
> a good reason why they shouldn't be auto-deleted.)
>
> My encounter with this comes from using an almost full
> usbstick which I discovered when I was poking around
> for other reasons several partial packs from occasions
> (separated by weeks) where gc failed. On each failure
> I'd removed stuff from the drive to clear space and done
> a successful gc but hadn't thought to
> check below .git for removable stuff so they'd just accumulated.
I'd suggest they get removed a part of the prune command.
Nicolas
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2007-11-28 7:42 ok for git to delete temporary packs on write error? David Tweed
2007-11-28 15:01 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-11-28 15:48 ` David Tweed
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