From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:45:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch performance problem?
Message-ID: <8c5c35580710101445h232f9a67jd0c326b3b97ae3dd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071010213925.GB2963@fieldses.org>

On 10/10/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > could it be that GC does not handle cyclic alternates correctly?
>
> Does it handle alternates at all?  If you run git-gc on a repository
> which other repositories get objects from, then my impression was that
> bad things happen.
>

AFAIK 'git gc' is safe, while 'git gc --prune' will remove loose
(unreferenced) objects.

-- 
larsh