* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: overlays.gentoo.org restoration & post-mortem
@ 2014-01-18 15:11 99% ` Alex Xu
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From: Alex Xu @ 2014-01-18 15:11 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 18/01/14 05:57 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> FYI: The following repos contained dangling commits/tags/blobs
>> [...] you are encouraged to push again [...]
>> user/mv.git (+blobs)
>
> I cannot imagine that the suggested "git push" removed orphaned blobs:
> AFAIK it is not possible to execute commands like "git prune",
> "git gc --aggressive", or "git repack -a -d" remotely.
> Perhaps such things should run as a cron job?
>
>
From what I know, dangling commits are part of the git workflow if one
rewrites history.
If you push A -> B -> C, then reset --hard to B, then push, C will be
dangling on the remote and will not be cleaned until git gc is
automatically run on the remote, controlled by the gc.auto config
variable (on by default).
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