From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:24:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: does index-pack work in place on windows?
Message-ID: <7vk4hhwpfb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102030026430.12104@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

>> $ git index-pack
>> .git/objects/pack/pack-d634271f4d7ca70c00148e967a343c3c46cd7705.pack
>> Unlink of file '.git/objects/pack/pack-d634271f4d7ca70c00148e967a343c3c46cd7705.idx'
>> failed. Should I try again? (y/n)? n
>> fatal: unable to create
>> '.git/objects/pack/pack-d634271f4d7ca70c00148e967a343c3c46cd7705.idx':
>> File exists
>
> Why would you do such thing in the first place?
>
> If the pack exists along with its index on disk, there is no point 
> recreating it.  Maybe index-pack should just bail out early in that 
> case.

I am trying to see if an index-pack with slight modification would be a
good replacement for verify-pack.