Re: gc and repack ignore .git/*HEAD when checking reachability
- From
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
- Date
- Jul 8, 2016, 19:25 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20160708192504.GL19871@thunk.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <xmqqa8hsm4qu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:14:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Show 7 quoted lines
> > It cannot be "anything directly under .git that has all-caps name > that ends with _HEAD". The ones we write we know are going to be > removed at some point in time (e.g. "git reset", "git bisect reset", > "git merge --abort", etc.). We do not have any control on random > ones that the users and third-party tools leave behind, holding onto > irrelevant objects forever.
What about anything that is all-caps and ends in _HEAD which has a mod-time within the last N days? (Where N is 2-7 days.) If it's older than that, it's almost certainly stale...
- Ted