On 4/23/08, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Karlsson schrieb: > > [Not seeing any unreachable objects] > > > Jeff King: > >> Did you remove refs/original/ ? > > > > That, and cloned the repository to a new location after the conversion, > > and removing the references to "origin" there. It does seem that the > > objects are still there, but I can't see them with "gitk --all". > > Did you clone locally? Then you must use the file:// protocol, otherwise > everything is hard-linked from the origin. This question has come up at least once a week since I subscribed to the list. I can think of these solutions: - Add a note to the git-gc and/or git-repack man page about how hidden refs can impact the cleanup. - Add an option to make git-clone *not* hardlink stuff; its different behaviour for hardlinking vs. file:// seems to be very confusing. - Make git-gc give a warning when there are some objects that are only referenced via the reflog or refs/original. (I suspect this would trigger too often though.) - Give git-gc a "really, I'm serious" option that makes it ignore the reflog and refs/original. Thoughts? Avery -- 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
