From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:13:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805121810501.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080512155243.GA3592@mithlond.arda.local>

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