From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:56:37 GMT
Subject: Re: pack count on repo.or.cz
Message-ID: <20080902015637.GA14765@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vod37s4hz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 06:47:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Hmm, I am slightly worried about doing so might defeat the whole point of
> making the sample repository a separate one from git.git hosted there.
> 
> The reason it is not a branch in git.git is because I did not want to
> contaminate the official git.git repository with commit objects in tree
> objects (aka gitlinks); it would deny access to clients older than 1.5.2.

Hrm. I had assumed they wouldn't be a problem because nothing actually
_referenced_ them, but I suppose it would break git-fsck on such
systems.

Anyway, I think "git repack -A" is a better solution (and presumably
there is some magic on the pruning end to make sure forks do the right
thing with loose objects).

-Peff