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Multiple pack files in .git/objects/pack

Subject: Multiple pack files in .git/objects/pack

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Martin Langhoff· Aug 26, 2005, 09:25 UTC · lore

I suspect I may have cancelled a git-repack-script execution, and now a repo has a redundant pack eating 70MB. I can tell the right one by running git-repack-script again, and nuking the "older" one, but is there a reliable way to determine which pack is the correct one?

>From the behaviour of the http transfers, there is a pointer to it somewhere.

cheers,

martin

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