From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:59:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make repack less likely to corrupt repository
Message-ID: <7viqninuzv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902100807.40417.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> writes:

> måndag 09 februari 2009 07:04:46 skrev Junio C Hamano:
>> What's troubling more is that this would seem to leave the result even
>> more inconsistent if there are more than one packs that need to be
>> replaced.
>
> Why? We don't prune the old objects if we fail. The result might be a lot
> of redundancy, but nothing should be lost.

I was not talking about any loss.  The result would be a funny mixture of
permutations of {old-,}pack-*.{pack,idx} the user needs to match up after
figuring out what corresponds with what other one, and I think an expert
who is asked for help would have hard time matching them up too, even
though that is what you suggested in the message.

That troubled me and I was wondering if we can make the recovery simpler
for the users.