Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >> Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely >> run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in >> particular, >> >> - does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I >> cloned with -s? > > YES! yikes. > > This is about the best argument put forth so far for not > automatically running git-gc. Well, it could also mean that if git finds a dead symbolic link when looking up an object, it should check the corresponding link target directory for a pack file with the respective object... and if it finds such a pack file, create a link to it and use it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
