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Re: [PATCH] receive-pack: allow deletion of corrupt refs

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 29, 2007, 03:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20071129035539.GT1001@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0711290101420.27959@racer.site>
  Hi,
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:02:53AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Occasionally, in some setups (*cough* forks on repo.or.cz *cough*) some
> refs go stale, e.g. when the forkee rebased and lost some objects needed
> by the fork.  The quick & dirty way to deal with those refs is to delete
> them and push them again.
  repo.or.cz now has this patch. I'm also repacking the kernel
repository which is in a pretty awful state, I'm hoping that will fix
some of the heavy performance problems repo.or.cz is hitting currently.
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure
that it wasn't a fish.		-- Marshall McLuhan
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Message 3 of 3 in “receive-pack: allow deletion of corrupt refs”
  1. receive-pack: allow deletion of corrupt refsJohannes Schindelin, Nov 29, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 29, 2007
  3. Petr BaudisNov 29, 2007

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