On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:37:44PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > Dmitry Potapov wrote: > > > > ... repository using this option and then delete branches (or use any > > other git command that makes any existing commit unreferenced) ... > > That's fine, but one of us needs to resubmit. Care to do the honors? :) Here it goes: -- >8 -- >From 21a905febd728f8839a1c96d0dfa83d8f252b132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:26:13 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc Since git-gc now always calls prune, even with --auto, unreferenced objects may be removed by more operations than just git-gc. This is important for clones created using --shared or --reference. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 13 +++++++++---- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 9758243..9b56442 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -65,10 +65,13 @@ OPTIONS + *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand what it does. If you clone your -repository using this option, then delete branches in the -source repository and then run linkgit:git-gc[1] using the -'--prune' option in the source repository, it may remove -objects which are referenced by the cloned repository. +repository using this option and then delete branches (or use any +other git command that makes any existing commit unreferenced) in the +source repository, some objects may become unreferenced (or dangling). +These objects may be removed by normal git operations (such as git-commit[1]) +which automatically call git-gc[1]. If these objects are removed and +were referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository +will become corrupt. @@ -79,6 +82,8 @@ objects which are referenced by the cloned repository. an already existing repository as an alternate will require fewer objects to be copied from the repository being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs. ++ +*NOTE*: see NOTE to --shared option. --quiet:: -q:: -- 1.5.5 -- -- 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
