Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs
- From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 29, 2006, 03:48 UTC
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- <ei18ak$nv4$1@sea.gmane.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <20061029033829.GA3435@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> Eran Tromer <git2eran@tromer.org> wrote: >> >> It would be nice to have whoever creates a pack-*.keep file put >> something useful as the content of the file, so we'll know what to clean >> up after abnormal termination: >> >> $ grep -l ^git-receive-pack $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-*.keep > > Yes, that's a very good idea. When I do the git-receive-pack > implementation tonight I'll try to dump useful information to the > .keep file such that you can easily grep for the stale .keeps > and decide which ones should go.
Perhaps git-count-packs (or enhanced git-count-objects, or git-count-stuff; whatever it would be named) could also list (with some option) the reasons for packs to be kept...
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git