Re: git-gc --prune interferes cogito?

From: Michael Dressel <michaeltilodressel@t-online.de>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710172034270.4755@castor.milkiway.cos>
In-Reply-To: <20071017153841.GL18279@machine.or.cz>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:

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>   Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:43:27PM +0200, MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de wrote:
> > I'm using git-1.5.3.2 and cogito-0.18.1.
> > 
> > After I did a git-gc --prune cg-status didn't show my branches anymore.
> > git-branch -a still showed the branches.
> > I think that git-gc removed all files from .git/refs/heads/ except for
> > origin. Git seams to be fine with the branches in 
> >  .git/logs/refs/heads/. 
> > 
> > So should git-gc not be used together with cogito?
> 
>   Cogito doesn't support packed heads - I guess setting gc.packrefs to
> false should fix the issue. Cogito should support packed tags, I guess;
> I don't know if there's a way to make git-gc pack only tags.
>

Thank you. I tried it at home too where I had an older version of git. With the older git version git-gc --prune didn't disturbe cogito. I upgradet to git version 1.5.3.4 and tried gc.packrefs=false and it seams to be ok forr cogito.

Cheers, Michael