On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:35:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Did you miss the part where I asked "should we include instructions to > > the user on how to fix this"? > > Actually, I didn't. It is very hard to lose data once you put it in git; > "by following recovery insn the user can redo" is often trivially correct > thanks to it. > > But it is not a very good option to cause the damage and then give > recovery insn. The user might have ran out of quota, and even if he > didn't, he wasted needless cycles for the unwanted sort of repacking. OK, let's forget the warning, then. Hopefully between the note under "clone -s" and the fact that most people should be using "git gc" these days, it won't be a big issue. -Peff -- 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