From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:03:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects.
Message-ID: <7v4pm8wpgc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510705190910h7e5ed03bnbc5a1b9a1369fc9f@mail.gmail.com>

"Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com> writes:

> ...  But such an attribute should be
> ignored when --stdout is in effect -- it only affects on-disk
> repacking, not packing for transfers, which is why it's named "repack".

Yes -- if we want to have an option to keep objects selectively
left out of packs in loose format, you would need 'repack' which
acts differently between the server-feeding-client case vs
packing-repository case.

Which is a bigger change that I did not want to show in the
quick-and-clean patch, but I would agree we would want both.