From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Ephrim Khong <dr.khong@gmail•com>
Cc: GIT Mailing-list <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:01:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4vz51gb.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53BFB055.206@gmail.com> (Ephrim Khong's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:37:25 +0200")
Ephrim Khong <dr.khong@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 repository
other repositories borrow from, even if there is no cycle, because
the borrowee does not know anythning about objects that it itself no
longer needs but are still needed by its borrowers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-11 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-11 9:37 [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates Ephrim Khong
2014-07-11 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-07-11 18:01 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-12 5:57 ` Jeff King
2014-07-14 22:05 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-13 10:44 ` Ephrim Khong
2014-07-14 9:02 ` [PATCH] sha1_file: do not add own object directory as alternate Ephrim Khong
2014-07-14 10:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-07-14 12:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Ephrim Khong
2014-07-15 5:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-07-15 11:29 ` [PATCH v3] " Ephrim Khong
2014-07-15 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-16 6:42 ` Ephrim Khong
2014-07-15 19:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-07-15 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-16 6:47 ` Ephrim Khong
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