From: Matt McClure Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 20:04:18 GMT Subject: Re: Avoiding broken Gitweb links and deleted objects Message-ID: <1912835977933437557@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Matt McClure wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> git gc moves unreachable objects that were packed before to the loose >> object store, from where they can be pruned. > > Thanks. That was the piece I was missing. I assumed `git gc` did the opposite. That begs a follow-up question. It sounds as though Git will typically delete unreachable objects. My team often shares links like https://git.example.com/foo.git/log/d59051721bb0a3758f7c6ea0452bac122a377645?hp=0055e0959cd13780494fe33832bae9bcf91e4a90 . If I later rebase the branch containing those commits and d590517 becomes unreachable, do I risk that link breaking when Git deletes d590517? What's a good strategy for avoiding breaking those links? -- Matt McClure http://matthewlmcclure.com http://www.mapmyfitness.com/profile/matthewlmcclure