From: Govind Salinas Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:07:56 GMT Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files? Message-ID: <5d46db230805121407pdb3f6fdnd41898d3dde6862b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote: > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > Sure. But to decide to track only one branch and exclude the others > > > require some higher level of git knowledge already. At that point if > > > you really care about top packing performances you certainly can deal > > > with the .keep file as well. > > > > I have had some similar problems with .keep files. I cloned a repo I > > created that had a branch that I wasn't interested in. I deleted the > > branch and then I could never get rid of the (large) number of objects > > in that pack until I deleted the .keep and repacked. > > But as soon as you just "git pull" you'll get the deleted branch back. > > If you read the rest of my mail, you will see where I removed it from the hosted server as well. But with difficulty. Thanks, Govind.