# 1.5.0.rc0.gf4bf2: "git --bare gc" in bare repo deletes all!

1 messages from 2007-01-02 to 2007-01-02. Participants: Horst H. von Brand.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6195

## Horst H. von Brand, 2007-01-02 15:17

Subject: 1.5.0.rc0.gf4bf2: "git --bare gc" in bare repo deletes all!
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I did:

  mkdir M
  cd M
  git --bare init-db
  git --bare fetch git+ssh://localhost/SomeRepo

This got the (correct) 21 (loose) objects. OK, cleanup:

  git --bare gc

this gives:

  Generating pack...
  Done counting 0 objects.
  Nothing new to pack.

and the objects are gone, no pack there.

Same thing happens with plain "git gc". Not very nice...


Besides, you can "git --bare pull ...", and get a mishmash of repo +
checked out files, this should be forbidden. Also, "git status" reports a
bunch of repo files as untracked, "git ls-files" shows nothing at all.
I.e., handling of bare repos needs a workover.
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