From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:15:56 GMT
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Message-ID: <vpqws9cd06b.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904221331450.6741@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Why so?  Having fewer packs is always a good thing.  Having only one 
> pack is of course the optimal situation. 

Good and optimal wrt Git, but not wrt an incremental backup system for
example. I have a "git gc" running daily in a cron job in each of my
repositories, but to be nice with my sysadmin, I don't want to rewrite
tens of megabytes of data each night just because I commited a 2 lines
patch somewhere.

-- 
Matthieu