Re: git branch performance problem?

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 21:49 UTC
Message-ID: <f329bf540710101449oad9c9dg85f3821f55fb85ea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580710101445h232f9a67jd0c326b3b97ae3dd@mail.gmail.com>

2007/10/10, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>:

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> On 10/10/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > could it be that GC does not handle cyclic alternates correctly?
> >
> > Does it handle alternates at all?  If you run git-gc on a repository
> > which other repositories get objects from, then my impression was that
> > bad things happen.
> >
>
> AFAIK 'git gc' is safe, while 'git gc --prune' will remove loose
> (unreferenced) objects.

Yes, I think that in this case, gc --prune was run accidentally, but given that the history of the program invoking git just died, I'm not sure how to figure that out.

Maybe gc --prune could follow the alternates and abort if a cycle was detected?

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