Re: [RFC PATCH 6/7] builtin/repack: actually drop filtered promisor blobs

From: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2026, 19:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGWgyh_cNL=K-8JceMqZ6C9aEpKohnFhXEBxpMecnsHyoW3xXA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ec546f71-3412-47ef-a4cf-98558889a90f@gmail.com>

On 24/07/26 01:12, Siddharth Asthana wrote:

> Yes, without that the drop would not actually reclaim space.
>
> It would be nice if the documentation mentioned that a real
> --drop-filtered run implies -d.

sounds good.. there is no git-repack documentation for --drop-filtered yet, so when I add it in v2 I'll call out explicitly that a real (non-dry-run) --drop-filtered run implies -d.

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