From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal? Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70ACE0502@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <20090422152719.GA12881@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Brandon Casey , Jeff King , John Dlugosz , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 22 21:01:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lwhga-0004m1-OX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:00:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753624AbZDVS7H (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755526AbZDVS7G (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:06 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:34914 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753833AbZDVS7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:05 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3MIrTQT000738 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:53:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1LwgzE-000196-CO; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:56 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LwgzE-0002HF-A8; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Wed\, 22 Apr 2009 13\:39\:21 -0400 \(EDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:53:35 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Nicolas Pitre writes: > Why so? Having fewer packs is always a good thing. Having only one > pack is of course the optimal situation. Good and optimal wrt Git, but not wrt an incremental backup system for example. I have a "git gc" running daily in a cron job in each of my repositories, but to be nice with my sysadmin, I don't want to rewrite tens of megabytes of data each night just because I commited a 2 lines patch somewhere. -- Matthieu