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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:53:20PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> > Yes. You would have to use the pack mtime. But of course you would have
> > to actually _leave_ them in a pack, or they would just keep getting
> > added to the new pack.
> 
> I had the impression that unreachable objects would not be packed. Maybe it
> was more of an assumption.

Look in builtin-pack-objects.c:1981-1982. We basically just say "if it's
in a pack now, then it should go into the new pack."

-Peff