From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:14:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Diagnosing stray/stale .keep files -- explore what is in a pack?
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> As long as we can reliably determine that it is safe to do so
>> without risking races, automatically cleaning .lock files is a good
>> thing to do.
>
> If the .lock file is a day old, it seems to me that it should be safe
> to call it stale.

Perhaps report those stale locks (and stale .keep files as well if you
can detct them) as garbage in count-objects too.
-- 
Duy