From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:42:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.
Message-ID: <7vu0e84bfq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <437F1E67.8020302@etek.chalmers.se>

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.