From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:35:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] git-merge-pack
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709070027520.5626@evo.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wdb9ymf.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>



On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> This is a beginning of "git-merge-pack" that combines smaller
> packs into one.  Currently it does not actually create a new
> pack, but pretends that it is a (dumb) "git-rev-list --objects"
> that lists the objects in the affected packs.  You have to pipe
> its output to "git-pack-objects".

Ok, so I had to double-check that builtin-pack-objects then deals properly 
with duplicate object names (which it does seem to do), so maybe it's 
worth adding a comment to that effect.

But ACK, this seems to be the right thing to do to generate a single 
bigger pack from many smaller ones.

		Linus