Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > That sounds reasonable. And if they *do* end up taking any time to > traverse, it's because they weren't reachable from other anchoring > points, so taking the extra time to traverse them seems fine. The only thing that is hard is to clearly define _what_ are the new anchoring points. It cannot be "anything directly under .git that has all-caps name that ends with _HEAD". The ones we write we know are going to be removed at some point in time (e.g. "git reset", "git bisect reset", "git merge --abort", etc.). We do not have any control on random ones that the users and third-party tools leave behind, holding onto irrelevant objects forever. -- 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