# dangling commits in worktree 3 messages from 2016-11-23 to 2016-11-23. Participants: Van Oostenryck Luc, Duy Nguyen, Luc Van Oostenryck. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44537 ## Van Oostenryck Luc, 2016-11-23 00:52 Subject: dangling commits in worktree Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAExDi1SYOuq7GJC69%2B5yDmzaw--vKMmmqv0Jsm80hU1L5phDUg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, More or less by error I used the fsck command in a worktree and I had the surprised to see that it reported a lot of dangling commits while it was not supposed to have one. I quickly realized that it was the case only in the worktree, in the main dir things were OK. While experimenting a bit I also saw that git gc had not the same effect in a worktree than in the main tree (the pack was smaller, more files were left in objects/xx/ dirs), which is even more odd and a bit scary when thinking to the pruning. This seems like a bug to me and googling about it didn't returned anything. Luc Van Oostenryck ``` ## Duy Nguyen, 2016-11-23 09:45 Subject: Re: dangling commits in worktree Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8CPX3PDfhcaftDHy_U37rEACr7Q1gj_un4ALen45J9GZQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Van Oostenryck Luc wrote: > Hi, > > More or less by error I used the fsck command in a worktree and I had > the surprised to see that it reported a lot of dangling commits while it was > not supposed to have one. > I quickly realized that it was the case only in the worktree, in the main dir > things were OK. While experimenting a bit I also saw that git gc had not the > same effect in a worktree than in the main tree (the pack was smaller, more > files were left in objects/xx/ dirs), which is even more odd and a bit > scary when thinking to the pruning. > > This seems like a bug to me and googling about it didn't returned anything. It's a known issue that gc (and maybe some others that do rev-list --all, like fsck) "forgets" about some worktree's refs and you will see what you see. Work on it was postponed because the "refs" subsystem was being refactored. I think I'm resuming it soon. -- Duy ``` ## Luc Van Oostenryck, 2016-11-23 14:15 Subject: Re: dangling commits in worktree Message-ID: <20161123141502.GA10722@macbook.local> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161123141502.GA10722%40macbook.local In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:45:56PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > It's a known issue that gc (and maybe some others that do rev-list > --all, like fsck) "forgets" about some worktree's refs and you will > see what you see. Good. I just wanted to be sure it was a known problem. Thanks for the info. Luc ```