Re: Something is broken in repack

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2007, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0712140252j42a3cff0r33b889e355d41dd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3odctr245.fsf@roke.D-201>

On Dec 14, 2007 4:01 PM, Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> While it doesn't mark the packs as .keep, git will reuse all of the old
> deltas you got in the original clone, so you're not losing anything.

There is another reason I want it. I have an ~800MB pack and I don't want git to rewrite the pack every time I repack my changes. So it's kind of disk-wise (don't require 800MB on disk to prepare new pack, and don't write too much).

On Dec 14, 2007 5:40 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> But if you clone via network, pack might be network optimized if you
> use "smart" transport, not disk optimized, at least with current git
> which regenerates pack also on clone AFAIK.

Um.. that's ok it just regenerate once.

-- 
Duy