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Re: Big repo not shrinking on repack or gc?

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Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 14, 2015, 14:39 UTC
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:49:36 +0000, Jeff King wrote: ...

> You don't need the "-f" here. Just "git repack -ad" should be enough
> (and the "-f" probably makes it _way_ slower).
Indeed, factor four.

However, my expectation is that a repack -ad will remove all the old pack files, as what is in there is either referenced and put into the new pack, or dropped => there should be a single pack file afterwards.

This is not the case. :-( (Done only with 1.8.2 due to lack of compilers for this box.)

Andreas
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