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Re: [External] git keeps recreating packs, exploding backup increments

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Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2025, 03:03 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se> wrote:
> We tried gc.bigPackThreshold in the hope it would force it to reuse
> packs better. But all we got instead was duplication. It still creates
> new packs with everything. It just stopped removing the old ones.

Is the repo partially cloned? git-repack will always pack promisor packs even if it's a keep pack. This patch would fix it https://lore.kernel.org/git/2728513.vuYhMxLoTh@mintaka.ncbr.muni.cz/

Thanks
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