Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

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Strange. Is my git 1.4.0 criminally broken? I have a clone of Linus' tree 
on a USB disk on ext3 without any objects, which I just cloned at some 
point and then did a couple of pulls from the same source. Now

1545084 /mnt/sda2/kernel-git/linux-2.6/
1255084 /mnt/sda2/kernel-git/linux-2.6/.git

The old git that always exploded all pulls and generated lots of loose 
objects? You can check with "git count-objects".

Installed 1.5.0.6 and its output of "git count-objects" is

180932 objects, 1112656 kilobytes

git gc removed everything (uh?) and then

linux-2.6$ du -ks .git
183040  .git

cool...

And to fix it, just do a "git gc" (or with older git versions, the secret 
handshake is just a simple "git repack -a -d").

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But that's a freshly cloned tree, without any pulls. I re-cloned it, 
because the tree I had earlier had the problem with each pull:

Unpacking 12452 objects
 100% (12452/12452) done
* refs/heads/origin: does not fast forward to branch 'master' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc;
  not updating.

Sounds like either Paul re-based his tree, or you did some work on your 
"origin" branch..

It must be the former then:-) Did I have a chance to re-synchronize 
locally to be able to pull normally again or was the only way to re-clone?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski