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From: Johannes Gilger <heipei@hackvalue.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git gc" removes ".git/refs/heads/master".
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:51:17 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <glt1bl$mal$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83c97f59a5a5e59f908f3fc125d26adb@lunox.net

On 2009-01-29, Bernd Lommerzheim <bernd@lommerzheim.com> wrote:
> maybe I found a bug in git. When I execute "git gc" in my local repository,
> git removes the file ".git/refs/heads/master". Is this an intended behavior
> (but why?) or is that a bug?

Good question, and I just found that one out myself. The ref has been 
"packed" (git help pack-refs) and can be found in .git/packed-refs. Hope 
that answers your question.

Greetings,
Jojo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29 19:31 "git gc" removes ".git/refs/heads/master" Bernd Lommerzheim
2009-01-29 19:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-29 19:51 ` Johannes Gilger [this message]
2009-01-29 19:55 ` Peter Baumann
2009-01-29 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano

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