From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 05:42:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Message-ID: <20080514054245.GA3147@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080513214638.GA14930@cuci.nl>

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote (2008-05-14 00:46 +0300):

> 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.

It turned out that gc --aggressive is not what I thought it was, i.e.
"pack aggressively and efficiently". So my suggestion implies the
semantics that --aggressive would do effective compressing.