From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:21:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Potentially dangerous behavior of git gc
Message-ID: <20091019112153.GX6115@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091019T095725-840@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:04:58AM +0000, Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> wrote:
> With this when the alternate info of A is finally updated, A is broken, missing
> many references and not having a head anymore.
> 
> Would it be better to have git gc not to take dangerous actions on potentially
> problematic repos?

Such repos are usually created using git clone -s. See the NOTE of the
manpage under the -s option, probably you want to use git repack -a
after git clone.