From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:50:12 GMT
Subject: Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories
Message-ID: <20090817075012.GA3437@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vna3nae.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:35:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Did you miss the part where I asked "should we include instructions to
> > the user on how to fix this"?
> 
> Actually, I didn't.  It is very hard to lose data once you put it in git;
> "by following recovery insn the user can redo" is often trivially correct
> thanks to it.
> 
> But it is not a very good option to cause the damage and then give
> recovery insn.  The user might have ran out of quota, and even if he
> didn't, he wasted needless cycles for the unwanted sort of repacking.

OK, let's forget the warning, then. Hopefully between the note under
"clone -s" and the fact that most people should be using "git gc" these
days, it won't be a big issue.

-Peff