From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:30:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prune: heed --expire for stale packs, add a test
Message-ID: <7vfxw5x1yp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802060910340.2732@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Instead, I think http walker should be made to use the same location and 
> filename pattern for its temporary files as the rest of the code.

I concur.  That's much cleaner.