Re: Creating objects manually and repack

> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 8/4/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >> I'd suggest against it, but you can (and should) just repack often enough
> >> that you shouldn't ever have gigabytes of objects "in flight". I'd have
> >> expected that with a repack every few ten thousand files, and most files
> >> being on the order of a few kB, you'd have been more than ok, but
> >> especially if you have large files, you may want to make things "every
> >> <n>
> >> bytes" rather than "every <n> files".
> >
> > How about forking off a pack-objects and handing it one file name at a
> > time over a pipe. When I hand it the next file name I delete the first
> > file. Does pack-objects make multiple passes over the files? This
> > model would let me hand it all 1M files.
> >
>
> Why don't you just write the pack file directly? Pack files without
> deltas have a very simple structure, and git-index-pack will create a
> pack index file for the pack file you give it.