From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:49:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > > But what I was really trying to point out in the documentation changes > > was that now _other_ commands such as git-commit are also unsafe since > > they call 'git-gc --auto' and could cause loose unreferenced objects to > > be deleted. So it is not enough to just avoid calling git-gc when > > dealing with a --shared repository. > > Right. Hmm. I missed that completely when I thought about prune > --expire. I think that if you are using repository from which other repos borrow objects via alternates, it is a good idea to turn off automatic repacking with "git gc --auto" by setting gc.auto to 0 (or, hopefully, "never" or "false"). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git