Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > > But what I was really trying to point out in the documentation changes > > was that now _other_ commands such as git-commit are also unsafe since > > they call 'git-gc --auto' and could cause loose unreferenced objects to > > be deleted. So it is not enough to just avoid calling git-gc when > > dealing with a --shared repository. > > Right. Hmm. I missed that completely when I thought about prune > --expire. I think that if you are using repository from which other repos borrow objects via alternates, it is a good idea to turn off automatic repacking with "git gc --auto" by setting gc.auto to 0 (or, hopefully, "never" or "false"). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
