Re: documentation for committing with git

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hmm, if I understand correctly, Daniel talks about data loss when using
> "alternates", if you e.g delete a branch and run "git gc" in the parent
> repository, because the child repository referring to the parent via the
> alternate reference can depend on objects in the parent repository that are
> no longer required by the parent repository itself.
>
> I guess that applies to multiple workdirs too, if you have staged but
> uncommitted changes in the staging area of a workdir. This message
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/10/11/335637 agrees. Shawn O
> Pearce's last paragraph says:

You might want to edit your new section so that it refers to some of
the earlier material rather than duplicating it.

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