Re: [PATCH] Add git-explode-packs
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- Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
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- Mar 26, 2006, 12:54 UTC
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On Sat, 2006-03-25 22:12:46 -0800, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com> writes: > > This script does the opposite of git repack -a -d. > > The script seems to do what it claims to, but now why would one > need to use this? In other words what's the situation one would > find this useful?
It's possibly useful if you oftenly access old objects with git-cat-file or git-ls-tree.
Not being a Perl hacker, a friend and I eg. started to hack GIT support into LXR. I've just posted some very early patches on the LXR mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1734). What would be even more interesting is to not unpack _all_ objects, but only those belonging to specifically mentioned commits or tags. I think LXR could make _good_ use of that.
MfG, JBG
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