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Re: killing a branch

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jan 10, 2006, 17:12 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0601100910530.4939@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid
> myself of that dirty dirty feeling.

Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob" messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to the temporary merge object.

So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally, instead of compulsively every time.

		Linus
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