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[PATCH 13/13] "git prune" is safe now

From: Thomas Ackermann <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:30
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

According to the man-pages of "git prune" and "git fsck",
both are safe nowadays.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <redacted>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 08d8c91..29945d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -3283,17 +3283,7 @@ state, you can just prune all unreachable objects:
 $ git prune
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-and they'll be gone. But you should only run `git prune` on a quiescent
-repository--it's kind of like doing a filesystem fsck recovery: you
-don't want to do that while the filesystem is mounted.
-
-(The same is true of `git fsck` itself, btw, but since
-`git fsck` never actually *changes* the repository, it just reports
-on what it found, `git fsck` itself is never 'dangerous' to run.
-Running it while somebody is actually changing the repository can cause
-confusing and scary messages, but it won't actually do anything bad. In
-contrast, running `git prune` while somebody is actively changing the
-repository is a *BAD* idea).
+and they'll be gone. 
 
 [[recovering-from-repository-corruption]]
 Recovering from repository corruption
-- 
1.8.3.msysgit.0


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Thomas
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