From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:21:23 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: gi mailing list , Nicolas Pitre To: David Tweed X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 04 18:23:03 2008 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 1JM51h-0004o8-3g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:22:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754809AbYBDRWE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:22:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754134AbYBDRWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:22:03 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37049 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753877AbYBDRWB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:22:01 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Feb 2008 17:21:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 04 Feb 2008 18:21:59 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/IfKZTQqrIqDuzi5yPnAbfRQL9TrTC7sMggLJ838 j55CbFautfg1iG X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, David Tweed wrote: > In response to this and to Nico's earlier mail, I _think_ the usage with > repack is completely safe. It would have been nicer of you to defend that, instead of sending me off to look for myself. Having looked for myself, I am not convinced at all. And it would have been surprising: if your patch would play nicely with a repack in progress, then it would fail to remove the temporary packs left by a crashed repack. Ciao, Dscho