From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:56:06 GMT
Subject: Re: repack: handling of .keep files
Message-ID: <7vy7k4ud3d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0705040225p26679dbib6a1261a1a43ee67@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Experimenting with the .keep-files I had a crash in git-log,
> when the pack was renamed into .keep.pack, but the
> index was not. git-log complained about two objects it could not
> read and than crashed. It's cygwin.

This part makes me suspect you are not even using the .keep
properly.  In addition to pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx), you
would have a corresponding pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.keep file (whose
contents does not matter) to mark that these should not get
repacked.