[PATCH 11/11] "git prune" is safe
From: Thomas Ackermann <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:32
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
"git prune" is safe in case of concurrent accesses to a repository but using it in such a case is not recommended. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <redacted> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 9149846..ea843e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -3299,17 +3299,11 @@ 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 +and they'll be gone. (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). +`git prune` is designed not to cause any harm in such cases of concurrent +accesses to a repository but you might receive confusing or scary messages.) [[recovering-from-repository-corruption]] Recovering from repository corruption
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1.8.3.msysgit.0
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Thomas