From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:46:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Improving disk space recovery for partial clones (GSoC 2026)
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3sicsPd903FU8bsj2B_4Q1DE1xB+--OxryY_jhL=sHdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aa65h6Z_TrpJbmkj@ThinkPad-E14-Gen-6>

Hi Yuvraj,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM Yuvraj Singh Chauhan <ysinghcin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in working on the "Improve disk space recovery for partial clones" project.
> I am studying the codebase, particularly promisor-remote.c, builtin/backfill.c,
> and the partial clone documentation.

Thanks for your interest in Git and this project.

> I have a question to clarify the scope and direction of the project.
> The project description mentions that git-backfill vs git-gc vs
> git-repack vs git-maintenance is still undecided.
> Has there been any recent discussion or consensus on this?
> I want to make sure my proposal aligns with the community's direction.

I don't think that there is a consensus on this. It seems to me that
someone said that git-backfill was likely not the best command for
this, but I don't remember where and when this happened. It could have
been in a private discussion.

Best.