From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:27:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv11 20/20] builtin-gc: Teach the new --notes option to garbage-collect notes Message-ID: <780e0a6b1001211127u6304546ej4e5bffbceca12e0b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1263762277-31419-21-git-send-email-johan@herland.net> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Johan Herland wrote: > The new --notes option triggers a call to gc_notes(), which removes note > objects that reference non-existing objects. > Shouldn't notes be unconditionally garbage collected? Or maybe there's a reason why notes should be treated differently that isn't written here.