From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:56:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Confusing text in git-prune.txt
Message-ID: <4970BC25.7020007@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090116165013.GA14196@chistera.yi.org>

Adeodato Simó schrieb:
> From git-prune.txt:
> 
>     [...] prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of
>     these head objects from the object database. In addition,
>     it prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     running git-prune-packed.
> 
> How can "unpacked objects" be "found in packs"?

An object can exist more than once in the database. prune-packed removes
the loose (unpacked) instance of the object if it also available in a pack.

-- Hannes