RE: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-14 Thread Keller, Jacob E
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:57 PM > To: Keller, Jacob E > Cc: gits...@pobox.com; dr.kh...@gmail.com; git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates > > On Fri, Jul 11,

Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-13 Thread Ephrim Khong
Am 11.07.14 18:01, schrieb Junio C Hamano: Ephrim Khong 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 gen

Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-11 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:01:46PM +, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > 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

Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-11 Thread Keller, Jacob E
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ephrim Khong 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

Re: [Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ephrim Khong 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

[Bug] data loss with cyclic alternates

2014-07-11 Thread Ephrim Khong
Hi, git seems to have issues with alternates when cycles are present (repo A has B/objects as alternates, B has A/objects as alternates). In such cases, gc and repack might delete objects that are present in only one of the alternates, leading to data loss. I understand that this is no big u