From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "Lukas Sandström" <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remove unneeded packs
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:13:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131833595.25203.10.camel@blade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43766687.2000007@etek.chalmers.se>
Hi Lukas,
> > you are right. It is exactly what I was looking for. I just saw it some
> > minutes ago, when I pulled the latest git tree. However to make an old
> > GCC 2.95 happy, the attached patch is needed.
> >
> > I am not sure if it is fully working. It deletes a lot of old packs, but
> > in case of the linux-2.6 tree it leaves on additional behind.
> >
> > .git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.idx
> > .git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.pack
> > .git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.pack
> > .git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.idx
> >
> > The 4d76... is the current pack, but the b3c6... is an old one that is
> > not needed anymore.
>
> This is most likley because the pack b3c6... contains unreachable objects.
> git-pack-redundant only makes sure that all objects present in packfiles
> still are present in packfiles after the redundant packs have been removed.
>
> Thus, unreachable objects will also be considered as required.
>
> Note that I haven't checked if this is the cause in this particular case,
> but I have the same packfiles (I use the HTTP transport too).
maybe these packs are from a previous bad update. The cloned repository
I found it, is actually quite old. When I checked it with some others it
seems that it works perfect.
> I'm thinking of the possibility passing a list of objects to be ignored
> on stdin to git-pack-redundant. This would hopefully solve this problem.
Sounds good, but I don't even know what objects are involved in this
case and stops it from being marked as redundant.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-12 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 13:04 Remove unneeded packs Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-12 13:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-12 13:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-12 22:02 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-12 22:13 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-11-13 2:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 10:58 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-13 12:00 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-13 12:07 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-13 12:20 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-13 12:31 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-12 13:40 ` Craig Schlenter
2005-11-12 13:59 ` Balanced packing strategy Petr Baudis
2005-11-12 15:14 ` Craig Schlenter
2005-11-13 2:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 11:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-13 20:06 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-13 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
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