From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:29:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805141626070.23581@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805141314440.3019@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Of course, the more aggressively we prune, the more we end up having to 
> depend on the fact that a commit that is in a pack that is marked "keep" 
> must *always* have everything that leads to it in that pack or others also 
> marked "keep". We effectively have that already (because we've always 
> pruned away the commits early), but it's a thing to keep in mind whenever 
> we prune even more aggressively.

I wonder if this is a good thing.  Such a rule would effectively put 
restrictions on how objects like big blobs could be distributed amongst 
many .keep packs.  I just wish we're not painting ourselves in a corner.


Nicolas