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From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:57 PM
To: Keller, Jacob E
Cc: gits...@pobox.com; dr.kh...@gmail.com; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:01:46PM +, Keller
Am 11.07.14 18:01, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
Ephrim Khong dr.kh...@gmail.com writes:
git seems to have issues with alternates when cycles are present (repo
A has B/objects as alternates, B has A/objects as alternates).
Yeah, don't do that. A thinks eh, the other guy must have it and
B thinks
Hi,
git seems to have issues with alternates when cycles are present (repo A
has B/objects as alternates, B has A/objects as alternates). In such
cases, gc and repack might delete objects that are present in only one
of the alternates, leading to data loss.
I understand that this is no big
Ephrim Khong dr.kh...@gmail.com writes:
git seems to have issues with alternates when cycles are present (repo
A has B/objects as alternates, B has A/objects as alternates).
Yeah, don't do that. A thinks eh, the other guy must have it and
B thinks the same. In general, do not prune or gc a
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Ephrim Khong dr.kh...@gmail.com writes:
git seems to have issues with alternates when cycles are present (repo
A has B/objects as alternates, B has A/objects as alternates).
Yeah, don't do that. A thinks eh, the other guy must
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:01:46PM +, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
Yeah, don't do that. A thinks eh, the other guy must have it and
B thinks the same. In general, do not prune or gc a repository
other repositories borrow from, even if there is no cycle, because
the borrowee does not know
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