From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:47:36 GMT
Subject: Re: pack count on repo.or.cz
Message-ID: <7vod37s4hz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080902011433.GA12682@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Though an even simpler solution, since you control all of the repos, is
> to just temporarily add references from the "parent" of the fork to
> every ref of every forked child. Then do the repack in the parent, which
> should then contain all of the objects for all of the children, delete
> the temporary references, and prune in the children (who should see most
> of their objects now in the parent).

Hmm, I am slightly worried about doing so might defeat the whole point of
making the sample repository a separate one from git.git hosted there.

The reason it is not a branch in git.git is because I did not want to
contaminate the official git.git repository with commit objects in tree
objects (aka gitlinks); it would deny access to clients older than 1.5.2.