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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Don't crash during repack of a reflog with pruned commits.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:56:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061222005606.GA14773@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061222004906.GC14789@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> If the user has been using reflog for a long time (e.g. since its
> introduction) then it is very likely that an existing branch's
> reflog may still mention commits which have long since been pruned
> out of the repository.
> 
> Rather than aborting with a very useless error message during
> git-repack, pack as many valid commits as we can get from the
> reflog and let the user know that the branch's reflog contains
> already pruned commits.  A future 'git reflog expire' (or whatever
> it finally winds up being called) can then be performed to expunge
> those reflog entries.

If its not obvious from the patch, this doesn't entirely fix the
problem.

Just because the commit has not been pruned does not mean that a blob
or tree referenced by that commit has not been pruned.  Right now
I am missing 1 blob and cannot repack because of it.

At least with this series of 3 patches the error message resulting
from this one missing blob is clearer.

-- 
Shawn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-22  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <be6b1443171482e1930bd7744a0218db0c03d611.1166748450.git.spearce@spearce.org>
2006-12-22  0:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce a global level warn() function Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-22  0:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] Don't crash during repack of a reflog with pruned commits Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-22  0:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22  1:00     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-22  1:18       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22  1:23         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-22  0:56   ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-12-22  8:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22  8:22       ` Shawn Pearce

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