Re: git-unpack-objects
On 5/3/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote:
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> > Hm.. so it seems that git-unpack-objects is more intended to unpack a
> > pack one has gotten with git-fetch-pack, right?
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> Yeah. And for testing. I don't think it ever gets used directly.
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> > I was looking for something more along the lines of an
> > "un-git-repack", where you have existing pack(s) and want to undo
> > them. Maybe you want to repack everything into a single pack or
> > something like that.
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> That's what you just do "git repack -a -d" for.
But that doesn't roll exsisting packs into a new pack, does it? I
thought it just packed loose objects into a new pack and deleted them.
I ran that on a repo that already had a couple packs in it, and the
old packs were still there.
josh