Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 16, 2009, 12:30 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908161429590.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090816122842.GA942@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:43:11AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > If there's a better or built-in way to do this with Git tools, I'd like 
> > > to learn it, and I'd be happy to update the wiki accordingly.
> > 
> > I think what you need is done by
> > 
> > 	git repack -l
> > 
> > (I agree it is not well documented, and I'd welcome a documentation 
> > patch.)
> 
> I think it is the opposite; packing _without_ "-l" will create a pack
> with objects from the alternate; using "-l" suppresses them. Running
> "git repack -a" should do the trick, I believe (and you need the "-a" to
> ensure that objects already packed in the repo are re-packed).

Hmm.  I really would like a documentation patch, then.

Ciao, Dscho