From: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:09:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Apparent bug in git-gc
Message-ID: <201409161809.s8GI9Dd4002425@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140916003046.GE5019@peff.net>

> 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