On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:09:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
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> Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> >> Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely
> >> run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in
> >> particular,
> >>
> >> 	- does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I
> >> 	  cloned with -s?
> >
> >     YES! yikes.
> >
> > This is about the best argument put forth so far for not
> > automatically running git-gc.
> 
> Well, it could also mean that if git finds a dead symbolic link when
> looking up an object, it should check the corresponding link target
> directory for a pack file with the respective object...  and if it
> finds such a pack file, create a link to it and use it.

One of the two of us is very confused about what "git-clone -s" does.
See the git-clone man page.  I don't think symlinks are involved.

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