From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:45:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] repack: implement `--filter-to` for storing filtered out objects
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0YzYR0y7st3CXbed9OdzbxRKK3wy1TzFGWxx+m3DfiDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy1j5p40f.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 8:18 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In version 3, the doc for the --filter-to option and the corresponding
> > gc.repackFilterTo config flag look like this:
> >
> > +--filter-to=<dir>::
> > +       Write the pack containing filtered out objects to the
> > +       directory `<dir>`. Only useful with `--filter`. This can be
> > +       used for putting the pack on a separate object directory that
> > +       is accessed through the Git alternates mechanism. **WARNING:**
> > +       If the packfile containing the filtered out objects is not
> > +       accessible, the repo could be considered corrupt by Git as it
>
> "could be considered" -> "can become".
>
> > +       migh not be able to access the objects in that packfile. See
>
> "migh" -> "might".
>
> > +       the `objects` and `objects/info/alternates` sections of
> > +       linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].

Thanks for catching these, they are fixed in my current version.