From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:45:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip writing out sha1 files for objects in packed git. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vekanyx33.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > LT> And if we have a pack-file in .git/objects/ that already has > LT> the object, that may not be the _same_ pack-file that we're > LT> expanding at all, so if that pack file already has the > LT> object, then not writing it out is actually the right thing > LT> to do. > > This I have to think about a bit. The most trivial example is doing a "git pull" of a small pack-file update. We probably don't want to leave it around as a pack-file (we'll re-pack everything at some later date, but we also don't want to expand the stuff we already have in our _real_ pack-file). Linus