From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:06:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links
Message-ID: <7vmz1el51o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7kyl5br.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>> The small detail in the last step is wrong, though.  Even if
>>> they EXIST, they may be isolated commits that are note connected
>>> to refs, and fsck in the repository would not have warned about
>>> unreachable trees from such unconnected commits.
>>
>> The superproject *is* a ref.
>
> But when you fsck the subproject repository in isolation in the
> earlier step in your procedure, that is not taken into account,
> is it?

Ah, forget about this.  The HEAD, which is in the tree of the
higher-level project, is a ref.  Silly me.