From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: How to unpack recent objects?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012161616170.10437@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <4D0A77A7.9080702@cfl.rr.com>

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Phillip Susi wrote:

> It looks like you can use git-unpack-objects to unpack ALL objects, but
> how can you unpack only recent ones that you are likely to use while
> leaving the ancient stuff packed?  Ideally I want to unpack all file
> objects from the current commit, and a reasonable number of commit
> objects going back into the history so accessing them with checkout,
> diff, log, etc will be fast.

What makes you think that unpacking them will actually make the access 
to them faster?  Instead, you should consider _repacking_ them, 
ultimately using the --aggressive parameter with the gc command, if you 
want faster accesses.


Nicolas