From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:07:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802061505390.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <e1dab3980802061157r36dfa8b9uab49af013cb8e963@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, David Tweed wrote:

> Given I'm the only person (AFAICS from the list archives) who's ever
> talked about failed temporary packs, I assume that almost everyone
> using git is using filesystems with sufficient space that they don't
> get write errors,

Note that doing ^C during a fetch will also leave a temporary pack file 
there.  So your patch is good even for people with plenty of disk space.

> so the path building will generally be done 0 times
> per --prune. (Using a USB disk that's almost full, along with
> occasionally filling up my /home with experiment output, is the
> occasions I get them.) So I don't think efficiency is an issue.

Clearly not a hot path indeed.


Nicolas