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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Design for http-pull on repo with packs
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:08:15 -0700
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> The big problem, however, comes when Jeff (or anyone else) decides to
> repack. Then, if you fetch both his repo and Linus', you might end up
> with several really big pack files, that mostly overlap. That could
> easily mean storing most objects many times, if you don't do some smart
> selective un/repacking when fetching.

So although it is possible to pack and re-pack at any time, perhaps we
need some guidelines?  Maybe Linus should just do a re-pack as each
2.6.x release is made (or perhaps just every 2.6.even release if that is
too often).  It has already been noted offlist that repositories hosted on
kernel.org can just copy pack files from Linus (or even better hardlink them).

-Tony