From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:55:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] builtin/pack-objects.c: ignore missing links with --stdin-packs
Message-ID: <xmqq1rcan9ri.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YFT8LqAcCqpG2wyl@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> If they are truly unreachable, then it is not strictly wrong to delete
> them (i.e., we are not corrupting a repository unless it was already
> corrupted), but:
>
>   - if the repository _is_ already corrupted, we are definitely making
>     things worse

Yes, that is a reason enough not to eject a commit whose tree is
incomplete.