Re: object/pack size x5 larger than a fresh clone?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2010, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7hkg982j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimLAROADKgWvEXa9QyyDGbWQGP+9BdbcN4fMHJ0@mail.gmail.com>

Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> writes:

> So I guess these *.idx without a corresponding *.pack are safe to
> delete? But git gc or one of the other house keeping commands should
> get rid of them though, I think.

I agree. I think the dumb transports like http:// grab *.idx files without downloading corresponding *.pack files when they encounter an object that is not found loose in the originating repository to see which packfile to fetch, but after they are done (or when they are interrupted, for that matter), these *.idx files may not be getting garbage-collected.

And they should be, perhaps with or without some grace period (I don't know which offhand---I didn't think this through).