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Re: killing a branch

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JAJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Date
Jan 10, 2006, 18:59 UTC
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<20060110185932.GW3389@suse.de>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0601100910530.4939@g5.osdl.org>
On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid
> > myself of that dirty dirty feeling.
> 
> Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects 
> religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but 
> especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob" 
> messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to 
> the temporary merge object.
> 
> So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally, 
> instead of compulsively every time.

Compulsive is the right word, it just itches to run the prune after killing a branch... I'll try and learn as well.

-- 
Jens Axboe
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Message 7 of 7 in “killing a branch”
  1. Jens AxboeJan 10, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2006
  3. Jens AxboeJan 10, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2006
  5. Jens AxboeJan 10, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 10, 2006
  7. Jens AxboeJan 10, 2006

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