Re: [PATCH] Convert emailing part of hooks--update to hooks--post-receive

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 25, 2007, 07:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vaby1aj86.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703240858370.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
>> 
>> Oh dear; I had no idea that packed refs made the ref file itself 
>> disappear.
>
> Everybody should do
>
> 	git pack-refs --all --prune
>
> occasionally to see this. In fact, I think we should probably make that 
> part of "git gc" (which currently doesn't pack branches at all, just tags, 
> since it omits the "--all").

*Warning*

As described in 1.5.0 release notes, packed and then pruned refs are not visible by commit walkers older than 1.5.0. So everybody should refrain from doing the above on a public "distribution point" repository that can be accessed over http until everybody upgrades.