From: Andreas Schwab Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:25:27 GMT Subject: Re: git gc expanding packed data? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3ace41890908080605k4ec6661bmcb4c87e10bc5fd87@mail.gmail.com> Hin-Tak Leung writes: > Thanks... It is a difference between svn and git mentality probably - It is just that the remote is a git-svn tree, with only a few branches created as local branches. > The case with gcc is probably quite extreme - many user branches, and > very large code base - but is there anything on the git side with git > gc which can lessen this kind of pathological behavior (expanding > packs)? If you fetch all refs, not only refs/heads/*, all objects will be referenced. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."