From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:08:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Message-ID: <20080512210807.GA22221@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080512210304.GA17352@glandium.org>

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:24:14PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > But I have experienced the same earlier with some other post-1.5.5
> > version so I believe you can reproduce this yourself. After cloning
> > Linus's linux-2.6 repo its .git directory weights 209MB. After single
> > "git pull" and "git gc" it was 298MB in my test.
> 
> I noticed that a while ago: when repacking multiple packs when one has a
> .keep file, the resulting additional pack contains too many blobs and
> trees, contrary to when only packing loose objects:
(...)

That is, it seems to also contain all the blobs and subtrees for all the
commits the pack contains, even when they already are in the pack having
a .keep file.

Mike