"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:09:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> 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. > > One of the two of us is very confused about what "git-clone -s" does. > See the git-clone man page. I don't think symlinks are involved. Guilty as charged. -- 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
