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Re: Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git vs Monotone)

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2008, 20:18 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> Oh, and to make sure I'm not lying I actually did test this, but I also 
> noticed that "git clone" no longer marks the initial pack-file with 
> "keep", so it looks like "git gc" will then break the link. That's sad. I 
> wonder when that changed, or maybe I'm just confused and it never did.

It was a bug in git-clone that we were recording the .keep file on initial clone. We left the lock file in place after the fetch pack call was done, but didn't remove it after the refs were updated.

If we want to go back to .keep'ing the original pack creating during clone it probably should be threshold based. For many smaller projects with only a 25M pack (or less) there is no point in .keep'ing that first pack. For larger projects where the pack is over a few hundred megabytes, then yea, maybe there is value in .keep'ing it during clone.

-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Sverre RabbelierJul 31, 2008
  2. Stephen R. van den BergJul 31, 2008
  3. Petr BaudisJul 31, 2008
  4. Jeff KingJul 31, 2008
  5. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  6. Sverre RabbelierJul 31, 2008
  7. Jeff KingJul 31, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  9. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  13. Felipe ContrerasAug 23, 2008
  14. Blum, RobertJul 31, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergAug 10, 2008
  16. David KastrupAug 1, 2008
  17. Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git vs Monotone)Craig L. Ching, Jul 31, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  19. Shawn O. PearceJul 31, 2008
  20. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkJul 31, 2008
  22. Avery PennarunJul 31, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  24. Martin LanghoffJul 31, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  26. Dmitry TorokhovAug 1, 2008
  27. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
  29. Sean EstabrooksJul 31, 2008
  30. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2008
  31. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2008
  32. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2008
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