From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:38:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: Run git gc only once and not for every patch.
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801041437190.2649@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080104185926.GA11912@redhat.com>

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:

> With "too many unreachable loose objects" git gc --auto will always
> trigger. This clutters the output of git am and thus git rebase.
> 
> The work flow of the Wine project doesn't include git merge. git rebase
> is therefor used to track the origin. This will produce soon too many
> loose objects for git gc --auto's taste. Pruning the repository would
> "fix" it. But we tell Wine developers new to git to NOT prune as long as
> they aren't confident enough with git; just as a safety net in case they
> have thrown away month of work.

The safety is the reflog.  What it refers to doesn't get pruned.


Nicolas