From: Shawn Pearce Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:29:26 GMT Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects < pack file in repository doesn't work! Message-ID: <20060307022926.GB29180@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <200603070213.02805.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Blaisorblade wrote: > It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature. It should be documented as > "git-unpack-objects < $pack; rm $pack" is something one would deem correct at > first glance (luckily I just moved the pack away and did git-fsck-cache). > > To write an object, git-unpack-objects ends in > > unpack-objects.c:write_object -> sha1_file.c:write_sha1_file: > > /* Normally if we have it in the pack then we do not bother writing > * it out into .git/objects/??/?{38} file. > */ > > This indeed works, so the files aren't unpacked. Funny, I just did the exact same thing today, scratched my head and said ``what did I just do!?!?!'' as I had deleted the pack before discovering that nothing was actually unpacked. *sigh* At least it was a clone of the real repository and thus didn't matter to me. I totally didn't expect that behavior. But I should have. It makes perfect sense. -- Shawn.