From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:16:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <455C94FA.3050903@xs4all.nl> <455CA2A8.5010700@xs4all.nl> <20061117015238.GD7201@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Linus Torvalds , Han-Wen Nienhuys , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-X-Sender: gene099@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: <20061117015238.GD7201@pasky.or.cz> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GktHA-0002dN-CE for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:16:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424926AbWKQCQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:16:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1424927AbWKQCQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:16:17 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:29627 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1424926AbWKQCQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:16:16 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2006 02:16:15 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 17 Nov 2006 03:16:15 +0100 To: Petr Baudis Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:22:35AM CET, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > For example, if you used one of the old-fashioned commit walkers, maybe we > > > got the initial commit, but we may not have gotten the whole _chain_. See? > > > > Huh? I am quite certain that FETCH_HEAD is not updated in that case. If it > > is, that's a bug. > > It may be updated and then things may break _afterwards_. git-prune will > happily blow anything referenced by FETCH_HEAD, it's not considered by > the fsck-objects reachability analysis. This actually underlines my point: FETCH_HEAD is no _real_ branch, not even a temporary one. If it was, git-prune would not lose the related objects. Ciao, Dscho