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Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 16, 2009, 12:28 UTC
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<20090816122842.GA942@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:43:11AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > If there's a better or built-in way to do this with Git tools, I'd like 
> > to learn it, and I'd be happy to update the wiki accordingly.
> 
> I think what you need is done by
> 
> 	git repack -l
> 
> (I agree it is not well documented, and I'd welcome a documentation 
> patch.)

I think it is the opposite; packing _without_ "-l" will create a pack with objects from the alternate; using "-l" suppresses them. Running "git repack -a" should do the trick, I believe (and you need the "-a" to ensure that objects already packed in the repo are re-packed).

-Peff
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