From: Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:12:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] let pack-objects do the writing of unreachable objects as loose objects
Message-ID: <18474.44264.479000.403927@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805140132500.23581@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre writes:
 > 
 > Commit ccc1297226b184c40459e9d373cc9eebfb7bd898 changed the behavior
 > of 'git repack -A' so unreachable objects are stored as loose objects.
 > However it did so in a naive and inn efficient way by making packs
 > about to be deleted inaccessible and feeding their content through
 > 'git unpack-objects'.  While this works, there are major flaws with
 > this approach:

Doesn't this make git gc --auto a dangerous operation?