[darcs-devel] [issue1934] (in)sufficient garbage collection of unused hashed files?

gh bugs at darcs.net
Tue Nov 9 12:12:32 UTC 2010


gh <guillaumh at gmail.com> added the comment:

See also
* pristine files accumulating:
http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/GrowingPristineProblem
* inventory files accumulating:
http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/GrowingInventoriesProblem

As explained in the first page, I believe this has to happen in order to
avoid race conditions between pushing/getting, see
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue687.

Maybe we should look at how git does garbage collection in order to see
how they handle these race conditions.

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