Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:09:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 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.
>
> One of the two of us is very confused about what "git-clone -s" does.
> See the git-clone man page.  I don't think symlinks are involved.