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Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 19, 2005, 20:42 UTC
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Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> writes:
> The "git-repack -a -d" case is fixed in Junios master, and I have sent out
> a patch which lets you pipe git-fsck-objects --full --unreachable to
> git-pack-redundant in the other cases, so the problem should hopefully
> be resolved shortly.

After thinking a bit about it, I tend to agree with what Linus said, and would vote for the simplicity of the older way. From usage point of view, git-repack is primarily about repacking, and the -d option is a funny exception applicable to -a case, only because it is so obvious (i.e. after repacking everything into one, it is obvious any other packs are unneeded). We might even want to make the "-a" flag to imply "-a -d" there.

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