Re: Big repo not shrinking on repack or gc?

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:49:36 +0000, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> You don't need the "-f" here. Just "git repack -ad" should be enough
>> (and the "-f" probably makes it _way_ slower).
>
> Indeed, factor four.
>
> However, my expectation is that a repack -ad will remove all the
> old pack files, as what is in there is either referenced and put
> into the new pack, or dropped => there should be a single pack file
> afterwards.
>
> This is not the case. :-( (Done only with 1.8.2 due to
> lack of compilers for this box.)