From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508161451510.3553@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vek8t8sgi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > We've got a "git prune-packed", it would be good to have a "git
> > prune-alternate" or something equivalent.
> 
> If you have GIT_ALTERNATE_DIRECTORIES environment variable, git
> prune-packed will remove objects from your repository if it is
> found in somebody else's pack.  I am not sure if this is the
> behaviour we would want.

Well, it may be good enough if the "master" repository is regularly 
packed..

		Linus