From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:59:03 GMT
Subject: Re: WARNING: THIS PATCH CAN BREAK YOUR REPO, was Re: [PATCH 2/3] Only repack active packs by skipping over kept packs.
Message-ID: <7v3b95wjmg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061030205200.GA20236@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>

Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> The following patch does fix the problem Nicolas reported, but for some
> reason I'm still getting only 102 objects (only tags and the commits
> they refer to?) with your test.

One potential downside of this is that this makes an obscure but
useful "gitk --unpacked" useless (robs performance).

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19197/focus=19207

But other than that, I think it is an Ok change.  The original
semantics of --unpacked (with or without "pretend as if objects
in this pack are loose") were, eh, "strange".