Re: There should have be git gc --repack-arguments

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2021, 09:58 UTC
Message-ID: <1edb799b-5e17-264d-e525-5355c52af36a@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YG4ws7PiKKKjPUff@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 08/04/21 05.22, Jeff King wrote:

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> If you are sneaker-netting, you are probably better off to just split
> the pack at byte boundaries with an external tool anyway, for two
> reasons:
> 
>    - our max-pack-size is just a guideline. It only splits at object
>      boundaries so if you have an object bigger than the max, we'll
>      exceed it.
> 
>    - dedicated splitting tools often have useful extra features, like
>      k-of-n error correction.
>

What external tools are for splitting packs? Can splitted packs by such tools still be usable by Git?

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