From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:00:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Fix archive-destroying "git repack -a -d" bug
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509180958310.26803@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050918031837.GB23405@redhat.com>



On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I'm sure I've done this several times in my x86info git repo
> (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/x86info.git)
> 
> It seems to look ok to git-fsck-cache though. Would that pick up
> any breakage if present ?

It will literally remove every single object in the system, so yes, there 
would be major breakage. Even "git log" won't work.

Note: this only happens if you haven't done _anything_ in between repacks. 
If you commit anything or do anything else to cause the list of objects to 
change, "git repack" is fine.

			Linus