From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:36:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Repack objects into separate packfiles based on a filter
Message-ID: <xmqqsfatwwtv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230614192541.1599256-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> In some discussions, it was mentioned that such a feature, or a
> similar feature in `git gc`, or in a new standalone command (perhaps
> called `git prune-filtered`), should put the filtered out objects into
> a new packfile instead of deleting them.
>
> Recently there were internal discussions at GitLab about either moving
> blobs from inactive repos onto cheaper storage, or moving large blobs
> onto cheaper storage. This lead us to rethink at repacking using a
> filter, but moving the filtered out objects into a separate packfile
> instead of deleting them.
>
> So here is a new patch series doing that while implementing the
> `--filter=<filter-spec>` option in `git repack`.

Very interesting idea, indeed, and would be very useful.
Thanks.