# Why pack+unpack?

1 messages from 2005-07-26 to 2005-07-26. Participants: Jeff Garzik.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1340

## Jeff Garzik, 2005-07-26 04:39

Subject: Why pack+unpack?
Message-ID: <42E5BE91.2050901@pobox.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/42E5BE91.2050901%40pobox.com

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Whenever I pull a local repository, such as

	cd /spare/repo/libata-dev
	git pull /spare/repo/linux-2.6/.git

git will pack, then unpack, the objects being pulled.  AFAICT this is 
just a complete waste of time.  Why does this occur?

Packing 1394 objects
Unpacking 1394 objects
  100% (1394/1394) done

It doesn't seem to make any sense to perform work, then immediately undo 
that work, just for a local pull.

	Jeff

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