On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, David Tweed wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 7:31 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is uncommon to have a prune occurring at the same time as a fetch, > > but the --expire argument is there if for example you do a prune from a > > cron job but still want to be safe by giving a grace period to garbage > > files which might not be so after all. > > Ah, I hadn't realised this was an intended usage of --expire. Since as > you note there's no way to tell an abandoned tmp pack from one that's > in the process of being written, following expire is probably > necessary for safety. I'll look at adding support for that. Did you miss Johannes ' patch? He posted it yesterday and you were even CC'd. It did exactly that on top of yours already. Nicolas - 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
