From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: does git prune packs? Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:14:46 -0400 Message-ID: <43283E66.5080101@pobox.com> References: <432805E6.6030905@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 14 17:18:12 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFYyK-0006DD-Ul for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:14:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965240AbVINPOu (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:14:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965230AbVINPOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:14:49 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:36016 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965240AbVINPOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:14:49 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EFYyG-0002RL-Il; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:14:48 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Does git-prune-packed eliminate packs that have been superceded by other >>packs? > > > Nope. Pretty hard to do. Unless you just repack everything, at which point > > git repack -a -d > > will do the right thing. I never repack, I just use your packs. Easier on my hard disk, vastly reduces upload time (cable modem == slow uploads), since I can ssh to master.kernel.org and hardlink, and easier on kernel.org. I'll remove the old packs manually. Thanks, Jeff