From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 22:48:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Message-ID: <20080508224827.GA2938@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48237650.5060008@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:53:20PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> > Yes. You would have to use the pack mtime. But of course you would have
> > to actually _leave_ them in a pack, or they would just keep getting
> > added to the new pack.
> 
> I had the impression that unreachable objects would not be packed. Maybe it
> was more of an assumption.

Look in builtin-pack-objects.c:1981-1982. We basically just say "if it's
in a pack now, then it should go into the new pack."

-Peff