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git packing leaves unpacked files

From
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date
Sep 26, 2006, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID
<45196BC8.8060608@shadowen.org>

I was just looking at my kernel repository and noticed that even after a git repack -a -d I have some loose files. A quick look at repack doesn't seem to explain why some are either not packed or are kept unpacked.

Is this something I should be expecting?
-apw
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