From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:55:26 GMT
Subject: Re: "git gc" removes ".git/refs/heads/master".
Message-ID: <20090129195526.GA15475@m62s10.vlinux.de>
In-Reply-To: <83c97f59a5a5e59f908f3fc125d26adb@lunox.net>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:31:17PM +0100, Bernd Lommerzheim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> maybe I found a bug in git. When I execute "git gc" in my local repository,
> git removes the file ".git/refs/heads/master". Is this an intended behavior
> (but why?) or is that a bug?
> 

This is intential, as git gc creates .git/packed-refs in which the
contents of your master branch are stored. The packed-refs help speeding
up the listing of your branches if you have many of them (e.g. many old
historical ones).

Regards,
Peter Baumann