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Re: Apparent bug in git-gc

From
Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Sep 16, 2014, 18:09 UTC
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<201409161809.s8GI9Dd4002425@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
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> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> 
> > I have an 11 GB repository.  It passes git-fsck (though with a number
> > of dangling objects).  But when I run git-gc on it, the file
> > refs/heads/master disappears.
> 
> That's the expected behavior. Gc runs "git pack-refs", which puts an
> entry into packed-refs and prunes the loose ref.
Arrrgh, damn!  I knew that but I forgot it.  Sorry about the trouble.
(At least I don't have to worry about fixing it now.)
Dale
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