On 08/04/2010 10:08 PM, Daniel Farina wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> All those issues can be avoided if you only run "git gc" when all the
>> working directories are in a clean state, with no staged but uncommitted
>> changes or other funny things. I can live with that gun tied to my ankle
>> ;-).
> Does even that open a possibility for data loss?
>
> Use of the alternates feature will, to my knowledge, never write the
> referenced repository: all new objects are held in the referencers.
> The only condition as I understand it is not to generate garbage in
> the reference repository, and that nominally does not happen in a repo
> that exists only to be an object pool (you probably even want to use a
> "bare" repository instead of one with checked out files).
>
>
AIUI, git-new-workdir, which Heikki is proposing to use, does not work
with bare clones.
cheers
andrew