From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:14:18 GMT
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904221509550.6741@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <vpqws9cd06b.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > Why so?  Having fewer packs is always a good thing.  Having only one 
> > pack is of course the optimal situation. 
> 
> Good and optimal wrt Git, but not wrt an incremental backup system for
> example.

This goes without saying that git should optimize for its own usage by 
default, and not for a particular backup system.

> I have a "git gc" running daily in a cron job in each of my
> repositories, but to be nice with my sysadmin, I don't want to rewrite
> tens of megabytes of data each night just because I commited a 2 lines
> patch somewhere.

Just add a .keep file along side your .pack file after repacking.


Nicolas