From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Splitting a repository but sharing the common parts of the object database
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:20:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101213192053.GA30315@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D066873.4020208@cfl.rr.com>
Hi Phillip,
Phillip Susi wrote:
> If I run a repack -a, then the new project has everything copied out of
> the archive and into its new main pack, rather than continuing to use
> the archive repository for old history, and just pack everything since
> then. I guess I am looking for is somewhere between a full repack and
> an incremental; a way to make repack -a discard existing local packs,
> but to respect the alternate packs and omit objects they contain from
> the new local pack.
You might be interested in girocco's fork support. See
http://repo.or.cz/w/girocco.git/blob/HEAD:/jobd/gc.sh for starters.
(Yes, the short answer is "-l" but showing where I got that answer
from seems a little easier. :))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 18:39 Splitting a repository but sharing the common parts of the object database Phillip Susi
2010-12-13 19:20 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-13 19:50 ` Stephen Bash
2010-12-13 23:17 ` Phillip Susi
2010-12-13 23:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
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