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Re: Creating objects manually and repack

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 4, 2006, 17:29 UTC
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> I'll end up with 110,000 pack files. I suspect when I run repack over
> that it is going to take 24hrs or more, but maybe not since everything
> may be small enough to run in RAM.

You may definitely want to pack the pack-files together every once in a while. Doing so is not that hard: just list all the objects in all the pack-files you want to merge, which in turn is trivial from reading the index of the pack-files (and then you do want to do the filename, although you can just use the pack-file name if you want to). 

But yeah, it's going to be expensive whatever you do. It's a big repo.
		Linus
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