git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir()

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 10, 2011, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID
<AANLkTik1HMQqKc98AF-6DTGJgrk8HOjZTimGnK-XBv-q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1299770345-32055-1-git-send-email-plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> If you use libgit.a to perform reference resolutions on two or more
> repositories that contain packed refs, cached_refs will store the packed
> refs for the first repository to contain a packed-refs file only.

If you use libgit.a to do anything on more than one repository, you get a lot more messed up that just that. Spawning a new process or accessing with libgit2 may be safer. Why do you want to do that in the first place?

-- 
Duy
Previous: Julius PlenzNext: Julius Plenz
Message 2 of 4 in “clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir()”
  1. clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir()Julius Plenz, Mar 10, 2011
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 10, 2011
  3. Julius PlenzMar 10, 2011
  4. Lars HjemliMar 10, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.