Windows binary saga

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2015 8:52 PM, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > b) if we detect that the local cache is inconsistent and unusable, should
> > we just delete it?
> 
> Please don't delete it, one of the nice things about the git format is how
> old history is almost impossible to destroy by mistake. But deleting the
> repository would definitely do that.
> 
> Imagine that you're offline, you have a few days of driving in your local
> cache, and something crashes badly. You don't want to throw that possibly
> recoverable data away just because libgit2 doesn't have "git fsck"
> capability.
> 
> So by all means move it aside, and trek the user some way that it's now
> available in so-and-so place for possible recovery if somebody wants to try
> to recover data.

Good point. 99% of users won't be able to deal with that. But still.
Moving it away is the smarter solution.

/D