From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gc and repack ignore .git/*HEAD when checking reachability
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 19:50:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160708235053.GA26097@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daWDi1P-xFaEYf1zzz7m3g9wengQPjRzxhgu6jVM9AKtyQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 01:30:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> I can imagine I'd start hacking on a project that I rarely touch, give up
> resolving a "git pull" from an unconfigured place (hence, some stuff is
> only reachable from FETCH_HEAD), and after 2*N days, come back
> to the repository and find that I cannot continue working on it.
Sure, but that's something that could happen today, and no one has
really complained, have they?
> Turning the rule to "*_HEAD we know about, and those we don't that
> are young" would not change the situation, as I may be depending on
> some third-party tool that uses its OWN_HEAD just like we use
> FETCH_HEAD in the above example.
>
> So I dunno if that is a good solution. If we are going to declare that
> transient stuff will now be kept, i.e. keeping them alive is no longer
> end user's responsibility, then probably we should make it end user's
> responsibility to clean things up.
Well, the question is what does "transient" stuff really mean? If we
keep them forever, then are they really any different from stuff under
refs/heads?
Maybe pester the user if there is stale *_HEAD files, but don't
actually get rid of the objects?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 2:59 gc and repack ignore .git/*HEAD when checking reachability Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 4:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 6:44 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 19:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-08 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 23:50 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2016-07-09 5:23 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-09 7:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-09 14:09 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-09 16:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-10 10:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-10 11:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-10 14:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-10 15:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-11 6:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-11 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-12 10:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-12 15:26 ` Jeff King
2016-07-12 15:46 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12 15:51 ` Jeff King
2016-07-12 16:13 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 8:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-13 14:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 18:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-15 15:46 ` Duy Nguyen
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