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Re: git auto-repack is broken...

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 2, 2011, 18:13 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:08:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > But we shouldn't be packing totally unreferenced objects.
> 
> Everything you said is correct in today's Git and I obviously know it, but
> I was taking the "Or have an extra option to..." at the end of the OP's
> message in the thread into account, so...

Ah, sorry, I missed the subtlety of Linus's "repacking the objects results in problems..." from his later message and thought he just meant repacking in general. Yes, it's a bad idea to repack unreachable objects because then you could never prune anything.

I think just shrinking the --expire window that we already use is a much more reasonable bet. It's not about preventing the loss of old work (reflogs are there for that), but about avoiding hurting an actively running, about-to-reference-the-objects git process. And 2 weeks is quite conservative for that.

-Peff
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Message 8 of 18 in “git auto-repack is broken...”
  1. Linus TorvaldsDec 2, 2011
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 2, 2011
  3. Linus TorvaldsDec 2, 2011
  4. Jeff KingDec 2, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2011
  6. Jeff KingDec 2, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2011
  8. Jeff KingDec 2, 2011
  9. Brandon CaseyDec 3, 2011
  10. Nicolas PitreDec 7, 2011
  11. Jeff KingDec 7, 2011
  12. Nicolas PitreDec 8, 2011
  13. Jeff KingDec 8, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreDec 8, 2011
  15. Jeff KingDec 8, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2011
  17. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2011
  18. Jeff KingDec 8, 2011

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