Re: [PATCH] Make git prune remove temporary packs that look like write failures

> On Feb 6, 2008 7:31 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > This is uncommon to have a prune occurring at the same time as a fetch,
> > but the --expire argument is there if for example you do a prune from a
> > cron job but still want to be safe by giving a grace period to garbage
> > files which might not be so after all.
> 
> Ah, I hadn't realised this was an intended usage of --expire. Since as
> you note there's no way to tell an abandoned tmp pack from one that's
> in the process of being written, following expire is probably
> necessary for safety. I'll look at adding support for that.