Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs
- From
- Eran Tromer <git2eran@tromer.org>
- Date
- Oct 28, 2006, 22:31 UTC
- Message-ID
- <4543DA2E.9030300@tromer.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <20061028072146.GB14607@spearce.org>
Hi Shawn,
On 2006-10-28 09:21, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> Lets say that a pack X is NOT eligible to be repacked if > "$GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-X.keep" exists. > > Thus we want to have the new ".keep" file for historical packs and > incoming receive-pack between steps c and g. In the former case > the historical pack is already "very large" and thus one additional > empty file to indicate we want to retain that pack as-is is trivial > overhead (relatively speaking); in the latter case the lifespan of > the file is relatively short and thus any overhead associated with it > on the local filesystem is free (it may never even hit the platter).
Sounds perfect.
It would be nice to have whoever creates a pack-*.keep file put something useful as the content of the file, so we'll know what to clean up after abnormal termination:
$ grep -l ^git-receive-pack $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-*.keep