Re: [PATCH] Add git-explode-packs

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sat, 2006-03-25 22:12:46 -0800, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com> writes:
> > This script does the opposite of git repack -a -d.
> 
> The script seems to do what it claims to, but now why would one
> need to use this?  In other words what's the situation one would
> find this useful?

It's possibly useful if you oftenly access old objects with
git-cat-file or git-ls-tree.

Not being a Perl hacker, a friend and I eg. started to hack GIT
support into LXR. I've just posted some very early patches on the LXR
mailing list
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1734). What
would be even more interesting is to not unpack _all_ objects, but
only those belonging to specifically mentioned commits or tags. I
think LXR could make _good_ use of that.

MfG, JBG

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