From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:49:19 GMT Subject: Re: git branch performance problem? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580710101445h232f9a67jd0c326b3b97ae3dd@mail.gmail.com> 2007/10/10, Lars Hjemli : > On 10/10/07, J. Bruce Fields 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? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen