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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git auto-repack is broken...
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:12:14 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1112071709250.2907@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+sFfMdeVoz8XU5j4hNn1qCHHzaiDi0Bw=QbbuU3cwT9mMPZOA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Linus's scenario of fetching a lot of stuff that never actually makes
> it into the reflogs is still a valid problem.  I'm not sure that
> people who don't know what they are doing are going to run into this
> problem though.  Since he fetches a lot of stuff without ever checking
> it out or creating a branch from it, potentially many objects become
> unreferenced every time FETCH_HEAD changes.

Maybe  FETCH_HEAD should have a reflog too?


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-07 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-02 16:22 git auto-repack is broken Linus Torvalds
2011-12-02 16:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-02 16:56   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-02 17:10     ` Jeff King
2011-12-02 17:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-02 17:45         ` Jeff King
2011-12-02 18:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-02 18:13             ` Jeff King
2011-12-03 19:42           ` Brandon Casey
2011-12-07 22:12             ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2011-12-07 22:53               ` Jeff King
2011-12-08  0:18                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-08  0:45                   ` Jeff King
2011-12-08  3:35                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-08  3:40                       ` Jeff King
2011-12-09 17:35               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-09 18:34                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-08  0:49             ` Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-03  6:55 George Spelvin

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