From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:09:40 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <85642phqtn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709051339420.30020@torch.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>> Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely
>> run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in
>> particular,
>>
>> 	- does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I
>> 	  cloned with -s?
>
>     YES! yikes.
>
> This is about the best argument put forth so far for not
> automatically running git-gc.

Well, it could also mean that if git finds a dead symbolic link when
looking up an object, it should check the corresponding link target
directory for a pack file with the respective object...  and if it
finds such a pack file, create a link to it and use it.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum