Re: alioth repositories
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 17:30:03 +0100, Peter Baumann wrote:
> I'm not sure I remember correctly but I think I've read on the git
> mailinglist that doing this in a cronjob on a repo which is in active use
> (pushed to) isn't the best idea.
>
> It could be that my memory is just wrong and it was git-prune which is
> unsafe but I want to mention it before you screw your repo bigtime.
>
Right, thanks for the warning, I guess we'll have to wait for git 1.5 to
be available on alioth before doing the repacking automatically (it
seems the races in git-repack were fixed then). Doing that from time to
time when nobody is pushing to the repos would still be a good idea, I
think.
Cheers,
Julien
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