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repack: handling of .keep files

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
May 4, 2007, 09:25 UTC
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<81b0412b0705040225p26679dbib6a1261a1a43ee67@mail.gmail.com>

It does not seem to be consistent with the name: "git repack -a -d" removes .keep files anyway.

How can I pin down a pack file so that it is never repacked? (Windows doesn't like big files, they get fragmented heavily and are hard to read and defragment. So I try keep them relatively small).

P.S. 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.

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