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Git is not an immutable data store. The refs are very mutable and change-sets get garbage collected.
by rciorba 14y ago
Git is not an immutable data store. The refs are very mutable and change-sets get garbage collected.
- mpyne 14y agoThe KDE sysadmins are well aware of that, at least. Mutable operations that would leave dangling blobs cause a backup copy of the appropriate ref to be generated before the force-push/branch-deletion/etc. are run so that there's nothing for git to garbage collect.