Jens Axboe [off-list ref] writes:
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that having dangling objects in your repository is not a crime,
and you do not have to religiously do "git prune" every time.
I know, it just doesn't feel nice!
Sorry, but I can think of only three reasons (and a half) why
somebody cannot live with "one git prune at the end of the day
before leaving" (or "week" for that matter) workflow:
* the filesystem quota is too tight and you cannot afford to
leave unused loose objects around. May still be true on
student accounts, perhaps, but I doubt this is much of an
issue in the modern world anymore.
* rsync is used to sync from a repository that dropped a branch
just now, and you do not want to push the garbage out. Well,
if you are still using rsync, I'll tell about it to Linus ;-)
Pushing via git native protocol over ssh would not send
unreferenced objects out and will not contaminate the other
end with the garbage.
* you do not want to leave after starting prune before it
finishes. If it is your hobby to watch the paint dry, I
cannot help you, but you could run prune under nohup (or
always work inside "screen", which is what I do).
+ having unused things on the disk just does not _feel_ right.
Well, maybe. I can argue with a reason but not with a
feeling. On a bright side, leaving recently abandoned
objects around for a while lets you run git-lost-found to
recover if you accidentally deleted a still-useful branch.
On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jens Axboe [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
quoted
that having dangling objects in your repository is not a crime,
and you do not have to religiously do "git prune" every time.
I know, it just doesn't feel nice!
Sorry, but I can think of only three reasons (and a half) why
somebody cannot live with "one git prune at the end of the day
before leaving" (or "week" for that matter) workflow:
* the filesystem quota is too tight and you cannot afford to
leave unused loose objects around. May still be true on
student accounts, perhaps, but I doubt this is much of an
issue in the modern world anymore.
Yeah obviously not true.
* rsync is used to sync from a repository that dropped a branch
just now, and you do not want to push the garbage out. Well,
if you are still using rsync, I'll tell about it to Linus ;-)
Pushing via git native protocol over ssh would not send
unreferenced objects out and will not contaminate the other
end with the garbage.
Haven't used rsync in a long time, I use git:// and ssh:// exclusively.
* you do not want to leave after starting prune before it
finishes. If it is your hobby to watch the paint dry, I
cannot help you, but you could run prune under nohup (or
always work inside "screen", which is what I do).
+ having unused things on the disk just does not _feel_ right.
Well, maybe. I can argue with a reason but not with a
feeling. On a bright side, leaving recently abandoned
objects around for a while lets you run git-lost-found to
recover if you accidentally deleted a still-useful branch.
:-)
Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid
myself of that dirty dirty feeling.
--
Jens Axboe
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid
myself of that dirty dirty feeling.
Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects
religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but
especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob"
messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to
the temporary merge object.
So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally,
instead of compulsively every time.
Linus
On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
quoted
Alright, I'll just have to shake the habit of running git prune to rid
myself of that dirty dirty feeling.
Yeah, I'm slowly shaking it off too. I used to run git-fsck-objects
religiously just because I worried about bugs. I still do it, but
especially with the recursive-strategy merging, I get "dangling blob"
messages every once in a while that are _not_ due to bugs, but just due to
the temporary merge object.
So I'm learning to ignore them, and prune the tree only occasionally,
instead of compulsively every time.
Compulsive is the right word, it just itches to run the prune after
killing a branch... I'll try and learn as well.
--
Jens Axboe