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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: When to repack?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:50:32 -0600
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We have a company repo used by many people throughout the day.  When/how
can I repack this?  I have come to adopt this approach:

% mv project project.pack
% cd project.pack
% GIT_DIR=. git repack -a -d
% cd ..
% mv project.pack project


Bill