From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:41:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031041150.4086@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0605031035l721ab08dmee6f870abb49f4e4@mail.gmail.com>



On Wed, 3 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Hm..  so it seems that git-unpack-objects is more intended to unpack a
> pack one has gotten with git-fetch-pack, right?

Yeah. And for testing. I don't think it ever gets used directly.

> I was looking for something more along the lines of an
> "un-git-repack", where you have existing pack(s) and want to undo
> them.  Maybe you want to repack everything into a single pack or
> something like that.

That's what you just do "git repack -a -d" for.

		Linus