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Re: RFH: Unable to get one big pack

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Jun 18, 2009, 16:03 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Marco Costalba wrote:
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> Sorry for the silly question, but I have tried anything to get one big
> pack instead of many objects.
> 
> I tried git repack but with no success:
> 
> $ git repack -adf
> Counting objects: 3317, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (3317/3317), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (3317/3317), done.
> Total 3317 (delta 2607), reused 0 (delta 0)
> $ ls -R .git/objects | wc -l
>   519
> $
The -d flag to 'git repack' only deletes old packs.

If you want to remove redundant loose objects then you need to run 'git prune'.

Nicolas
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  1. Marco CostalbaJun 18, 2009
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