From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:15:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prune: heed --expire for stale packs, add a test
Message-ID: <7v7ihi64xm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802051512370.2732@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> Follow the same logic as for loose objects when removing stale packs: they
>> might be in use (for example when fetching, or repacking in a cron job),
>> so give the user a chance to say (via --expire) what is considered too
>> young an age to die for stale packs.
>> 
>> Also add a simple test to verify that the stale packs are actually
>> expired.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
>
> Nicolas

They are not "stale packs", but temporary files that wanted to
become pack but did not succeed.  Perhaps "stale temporary
packs"?

Shouldn't we do something similar to objects/pack/pack-*.temp
files and objects/??/*.temp that http walker leaves?