From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:44:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects
Message-ID: <625fc13d0605031044y2ff03ed2h261db5455b234254@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031041150.4086@g5.osdl.org>

On 5/3/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >
> > Hm..  so it seems that git-unpack-objects is more intended to unpack a
> > pack one has gotten with git-fetch-pack, right?
>
> Yeah. And for testing. I don't think it ever gets used directly.
>
> > 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.
>
> 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