Re: Fix archive-destroying "git repack -a -d" bug

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > Using "git repack -a -d" can destroy your git archive if you use it twice 
 > in succession.
 > 
 > Why? Because the new pack will be called the same as the old pack. And we 
 > delete the old packs _after_ we've moved the new pack to the .git/objects/ 
 > directory, which means that we'll delete the new pack too!

Hmm, I'm sure I've done this several times in my x86info git repo (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/x86info.git)

It seems to look ok to git-fsck-cache though. Would that pick up any breakage if present ?

Running git-whatchanged, the history seems to go all the way back to the beginning of its cvs doppelganger.

		Dave