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Message-ID: <1355166920.17101.239.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:15:20 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing tags in my local stable git repo

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:02 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:47:44PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 12:35 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a crontab that updates these every night with a 'git remote
> > > update' and once a week they do a 'git gc' on these repos. I notice the
> > > above issues after the git gc.
> > 
> > Looking at my script that does the git gc, it runs:
> > 
> >  git gc --aggressive
> > 
> > on the stable.git tree. I wonder if that made a difference.

I know we're beating a dead horse here, but it would be interesting to
know where the corruption came from.

> 
> I think 'git gc' might have cause the problem, as it looks like it
> pruned branches that you hadn't accessed in a long time, so it cleaned
> them up.

That's a scary thought... git gc will just prune stuff you haven't used
in a while? I hope that's not the case.

-- Steve


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