From: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:46:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Message-ID: <20080513214638.GA14930@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080513092237.GA4413@mithlond.arda.local>

Teemu Likonen wrote:
>This way the "daily" gc would operate very fast (as it leaves .keep
>packs alone), and with gc --aggressive user could easily decide when to
>create new landmark .keep packs (and also prune possible dangling
>objects inside previous .keep packs). Normal user don't need to know the
>details. Just run gc occasionally and maybe gc --aggressive when better
>optimization is needed.

>How does this sound?

It sounds sound :-).
I like the simplicity.
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.