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From: Russell Steicke <russellsteicke@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Dongas <dongas86@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about changing remote repo name
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:53:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1b8b6671001061753h12d29511pa07bb080bd6c7834@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001060123280.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> For everybody reading this thread: DON'T!
>
> Russel, it would be better if you knew about the mechanism before
> making other people believe that it is safe to delete a file that is _not_
> a cache, but _replaces_ the existing refs.

Thank you for explaining that.  I apologise for the misleading information.

I have seen refs in packed-refs as duplicates of those in the refs/
tree.  How would that come about?



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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04  6:45 A question about changing remote repo name Dongas
2010-01-04 20:09 ` Miklos Vajna
2010-01-05  1:53   ` Dongas
2010-01-05  1:57     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-01-05  2:25       ` Dongas
2010-01-05  2:52 ` Russell Steicke
2010-01-05  4:30   ` Dongas
2010-01-05 21:15     ` David Aguilar
2010-01-06  3:55       ` Dongas
2010-01-06  0:07     ` Russell Steicke
2010-01-06  0:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-07  1:53         ` Russell Steicke [this message]
2010-01-06  1:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-06  3:58       ` Dongas

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