From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:57:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Sharing repositories later on
Message-ID: <20060712155751.GE7328@harddisk-recovery.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsgazw5j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:21:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> writes:
> > Right now I have a "linux-2.6" repository to track Linus's 2.6 kernel
> > tree and an "elinux-2.6" tree that pulls from linux-2.6 and holds my
> > own changes. I created a file .git/objects/info/alternates that
> > contains the line "/home/erik/git/linux-2.6/.git/objects". Now how do I
> > get rid of the "old" objects and packs without loosing my changes?
> 
> repack -a -d -l perhaps?

Thanks, that did the trick. I now have a small pack with around 100
objects.


Erik

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