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Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 12, 2008, 17:13 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Probably a crazy idea: What if "gc --aggressive" first removed *.keep 
> files and after packing and garbage-collecting and whatever it does it 
> would add a .keep file for the newly created pack?

Most .keep files are not meant to be removed by git-gc. Usually, .keep files are only created interactively (if you _want_ to keep a pack, e.g. when it has been optimally packed and is big), or by git-index-pack while it is writing a pack (IIRC).

So I think it would be wrong for "gc --aggressive" to remove the .keep files.

Ciao, Dscho

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