does git prune packs?

Does git-prune-packed eliminate packs that have been superceded by other packs?

	Jeff

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Nope. Pretty hard to do. Unless you just repack everything, at which point

	git repack -a -d

will do the right thing.

		Linus

Linus Torvalds wrote:

I never repack, I just use your packs.

Easier on my hard disk, vastly reduces upload time (cable modem == slow uploads), since I can ssh to master.kernel.org and hardlink, and easier on kernel.org.

I'll remove the old packs manually.

Thanks,

	Jeff

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Oh, ok. Then, do something like this:

	mv .git/objects/pack .git/objects/old-packs
	mkdir .git/objects/pack
	for i in .git/objects/old-packs/*.pack
	do
		echo $i:
		git-unpack-objects < $i
	done

and it will do the right thing. Doing the right thing means, among other things, that if an object already exists in an alternate object directory, it won't be written to disk again.

(So if you have an "alternates" file pointing to my objects, and your packs contain mainly/only objects that I've pulled, basically nothing will actually be unpacked.)

After that, do a git-fsck-cache to make sure everything looks good, and just "rm -rf .git/objects/old-packs".

And yes, we could make something like this a helper script.

NOTE! During the unpacking, the repository may not be usable, so make sure that nobody else tries to access it while you do this.

		Linus