Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 02:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611170315160.13772@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061117015238.GD7201@pasky.or.cz>

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:22:35AM CET, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > For example, if you used one of the old-fashioned commit walkers, maybe we 
> > > got the initial commit, but we may not have gotten the whole _chain_. See?
> > 
> > Huh? I am quite certain that FETCH_HEAD is not updated in that case. If it 
> > is, that's a bug.
> 
> It may be updated and then things may break _afterwards_. git-prune will
> happily blow anything referenced by FETCH_HEAD, it's not considered by
> the fsck-objects reachability analysis.

This actually underlines my point: FETCH_HEAD is no _real_ branch, not even a temporary one. If it was, git-prune would not lose the related objects.

Ciao, Dscho