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Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 22, 2005, 17:05 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0511220904040.13959@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> > The preferred way would be to just list the references somewhere under
> > .git/refs/stgit, in which case fsck and repack should pick them up
> > automatically (so clearly stgit doesn't do that right now ;).
> 
> I thought about adding .git/refs/patches/<branch>/* files
> corresponding to the every StGIT patch. Are the above git commands
> looking at all depths in the .git/refs/ directory?

Yes. Or at least they're supposed to. If they are not, it's a bug regardless, and we'll fix it.

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> The 'git repack -a' command would include the applied patches in the
> newly created pack but leave out the unapplied ones. It would be even
> better to leave all of them out since the StGIT patches are frequently
> changed but an independent mechanism for this would complicate GIT -
> 'git repack' shouldn't pack any of the objects found in
> .git/refs/patches/, even if they are reachable via .git/refs/heads/*
> (and maybe call the patches directory something like
> .git/refs/unpackable or volatile).

If we have some default location (and .git/refs/patches/ sounds good), we can make git do the right thing - find them for git-fsck-objects, and ignore them for git-repack.

		Linus
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Message 10 of 33 in “auto-packing on kernel.org? please?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsOct 13, 2005
  2. Carl BaldwinNov 21, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2005
  7. Chuck LeverNov 22, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  9. Catalin MarinasNov 22, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  11. Chuck LeverNov 22, 2005
  12. Catalin MarinasNov 23, 2005
  13. Carl BaldwinNov 22, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsOct 13, 2005
  16. Dirk BehmeOct 16, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowOct 16, 2005
  18. Nick HengeveldOct 16, 2005
  19. Brian GerstOct 16, 2005
  20. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2005
  21. Nick HengeveldOct 16, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2005
  23. Nick HengeveldOct 17, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2005
  25. Nick HengeveldOct 17, 2005
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2005
  27. Daniel BarkalowOct 17, 2005
  28. Linus TorvaldsOct 17, 2005
  29. Nick HengeveldOct 17, 2005
  30. Daniel BarkalowOct 17, 2005
  31. Johannes SchindelinOct 16, 2005
  32. Brian GerstOct 16, 2005
  33. Catalin MarinasNov 23, 2005

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