Re: [PATCH] git-repack-script: Add option to repack all objects.

From: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2005, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <43135AF7.6070705@tuxrocks.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vll2kbqa4.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> This originally came from Frank Sorenson but with a bit of
> rework to allow future enhancement to the command without
> changing the external interface for removal part.
> 
> With the '-a' option, all objects in the current repository are
> packed into a single pack.  When the '-d' option is given at the
> same time, existing packs that were made redundant by this round
> of repacking are deleted.
> 
> Since we currently have only two repacking strategies, one '-a'
> (everything into one) and the other not '-a' (incrementally pack
> only the unpacked ones), '-d' is meaningful only used with '-a'
> and removes all the existing packs before repacking for now.

Thank you for explaining the reasoning, and reworking the patch. This does make more sense, and I can see the logic for leaving around the packs. Coming from the perspective of the end user, I would probably want to repack quite a bit more often to take advantage of the size and speed advantages, while large public repositories will probably want to repack at much longer periods. Thanks for seeing both perspectives. I like your updated patch.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
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Brigham Young University
frank@tuxrocks.com
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