On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:57:18PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > I will also say that while I implemented this extension a while back, it > > never actually saw production use for my intended case. So I think it's > > pretty good (and certainly safer than nothing), but it's not thoroughly > > tested in the wild. > > We use it in grokmirror for objstore repositories [1] (the super-parents of > all forks), as a precautionary measure against a sysadmin running any kind of > manual operation that may result in loose objects being deleted. I do believe > it works well for that purpose. Ah, cool, thanks for letting us know. That's pretty much the same case I wrote it for (GitHub's shared-object-store fork repositories), but deployment got hung up on compatibility issues (since we used libgit2, as well). And then I never got around to it, and nobody seems to have cared too much. It's a nice safety to have, but I don't recall a single instance of an unintended naive gc ever destroying things. :) -Peff
