From: Shawn Pearce Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:00:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Don't crash during repack of a reflog with pruned commits. Message-ID: <20061222010018.GB14773@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7vmz5g92h7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > > > If the user has been using reflog for a long time (e.g. since its > > introduction) then it is very likely that an existing branch's > > reflog may still mention commits which have long since been pruned > > out of the repository. > > I've thought about this issue when I did the repack/prune; my > take on this was you should prune reflog first then repack. OK, but we should suggest that to the user rather than just cryptically saying 'fatal: bad object refs/heads/build'. -- Shawn.