The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an
inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will
prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the
commit object just about to be created.
Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even
daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and
should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with
--prune, or to call git-prune directly.
Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much
more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as
left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned.
Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which
makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc,
with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this
value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one).
If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable
gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be
[gc]
pruneExpire = 6.months.ago
or even "never", if you feel really paranoid.
Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op.
While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit
call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved
there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
* bc/reflog-fix: (1490 commits)
builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure
hash: fix lookup_hash semantics
gitweb: Better chopping in commit search results
builtin-tag.c: remove cruft
git-merge-index documentation: clarify synopsis
send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression
git-reset --hard and git-read-tree --reset: fix read_cache_unmerged()
Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l
diff: fix java funcname pattern for solaris
t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh
git_config_*: don't assume we are parsing a config file
prefix_path: use is_absolute_path() instead of *orig == '/'
git-clean: handle errors if removing files fails
Clarified the meaning of git-add -u in the documentation
git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling
git.el: Set process-environment instead of invoking env
Documentation/git-stash: document options for git stash list
send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to ""
cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments
Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.
...
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-reflog.txt
t/t1410-reflog.sh
Earlier, 'git prune' would prune all loose unreachable objects.
This could be quite dangerous, as the objects could be used in
an ongoing operation.
This patch adds a mode to expire only loose, unreachable objects
which are older than a certain time. For example, by
git prune --expire 14.days
you can prune only those objects which are loose, unreachable
and older than 14 days (and thus probably outdated).
The implementation uses st.st_mtime rather than st.st_ctime,
because it can be tested better, using 'touch -d <time>' (and
omitting the test when the platform does not support that
command line switch).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit implements the "delete" subcommand:
git reflog delete master@{2}
will delete the second reflog entry of the "master" branch.
With this, it should be easy to implement "git stash pop" everybody
seems to want these days.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This reverts commit 9b088c4e39.
Protecting 'mature' objects does not make it any safer. We should
admit that git-prune is inherently unsafe when run in parallel with
other operations without involving unwarranted locking overhead,
and with the latest git, even rebase and reset would not immediately
create crufts anyway.
This option gives grace period to objects that are unreachable
from the refs from getting pruned.
The default value is 24 hours and may be changed using
gc.prunegrace.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since c869753e, core.filemode is hardwired to false on Cygwin.
So this test had no chance to succeed, since an early commit
(changing just the filemode) failed, and therefore all subsequent
tests.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The logic in an earlier round to detect reflog entries that
point at a broken commit was not sufficient. Just like we do
not trust presense of a commit during pack transfer (we trust
only our refs), we should not trust a commit's presense, even if
the tree of that commit is complete.
A repository that had reflog enabled on some of the refs that
was rewound and then run git-repack or git-prune from older
versions of git can have reflog entries that point at a commit
that still exist but lack commits (or trees and blobs needed for
that commit) between it and some commit that is reachable from
one of the refs.
This revamps the logic -- the definition of "broken commit"
becomes: a commit that is not reachable from any of the refs and
there is a missing object among the commit, tree, or blob
objects reachable from it that is not reachable from any of the
refs. Entries in the reflog that refer to such a commit are
expired.
Since this computation involves traversing all the reachable
objects, i.e. it has the same cost as 'git prune', it is enabled
only when a new option --fix-stale. Fortunately, once this is
run, we should not have to ever worry about missing objects,
because the current prune and pack-objects know about reflogs
and protect objects referred by them.
Unfortunately, this will be absolutely necessary to help people
migrate to the newer prune and repack.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
