Re: git branch performance problem?

> 2007/10/10, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>:
> > On 10/10/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > > could it be that GC does not handle cyclic alternates correctly?
> > >
> > > Does it handle alternates at all?  If you run git-gc on a repository
> > > which other repositories get objects from, then my impression was that
> > > bad things happen.
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK 'git gc' is safe, while 'git gc --prune' will remove loose
> > (unreferenced) objects.
> 
> Yes, I think that in this case, gc --prune was run accidentally, but
> given that the history of the program invoking git just died, I'm not
> sure how to figure that out.
> 
> Maybe gc --prune could follow the alternates and abort if a cycle was detected?