From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:16:14 GMT Subject: Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061117015238.GD7201@pasky.or.cz> Hi, On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > 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