On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > > A lot of people do things like "git repack -a -d" by hand, and we've tried > > to encourage people to do so in cron-jobs etc. We've even had patches > > floating around that do it automatically after a pull. > > Ouch. That's really bad. Well, what did you think the "-d" stood for? It stands for "delete old packs". There are exactly two operations that delete git objects: "git prune" and "git repack -d". Nothing else should ever do it, but those two definitely do. They're designed to. I wouldn't call it "really bad" - it's part of the design. It's only bad if you didn't realize what "-d" means. > I knew it but didn't realize it until just now. > > git repack -a -d > git branch -D foo > git repack -a -d > > and *poof* no foo. Exactly. I thought people realized this, but apparently sometimes it's just an intellectual understanding of what something does, without realizing what that thing actually _means_ in a deeper way. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html