On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > For everybody reading this thread: DON'T! > > Russel, it would be better if you knew about the mechanism before > making other people believe that it is safe to delete a file that is _not_ > a cache, but _replaces_ the existing refs. Thank you for explaining that. I apologise for the misleading information. I have seen refs in packed-refs as duplicates of those in the refs/ tree. How would that come about? -- Virus found in this message. -- 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