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Cloning marks pack for .keep

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JHJean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Date
Jul 7, 2008, 21:27 UTC
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After cloning a local repository with "git clone file://...", the resulting repo had one big pack file, as expected, but also a matching ".keep" file. Certainly this is a bug, isn't it? The same happens if I clone git.git. I used git 1.5.6.1 but observed the same with the current master. I bisected this behavior to commit fa740529 by Shawn O. Pearce (CC'ing him). Since this dates back to 2007, I wonder if maybe only I am seeing this, but I cannot think of any reason for it.

(I already mentioned this on IRC today.)
jlh
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  1. Jean-Luc HerrenJul 7, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceJul 8, 2008
  3. Teemu LikonenJul 8, 2008

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