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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add git-pack-intersect
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:58:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4371E472.4030902@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051109111917.GB30496@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:20:59AM CET, I got a letter
> where Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> said that...
> 
>>This patch series adds git-pack-intersect. It finds redundant packs
>>by calculating the union of all objects present in .git/objects/pack
>>and then computing the smallest set of packs which contain all the
>>objects in this union.
> 
> 
> Sounds nice, except the name - it does something else than what the name
> says, so perhaps something like 'git-pack-redundant' would be more
> appropriate.
> 

It would be better if it was in git-prune or a default action for 
git-repack. I can't imagine a scenario where keeping redundant packfiles 
is useful.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09  1:20 [PATCH 0/4] Add git-pack-intersect Lukas Sandström
2005-11-09  1:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Lukas Sandström
2005-11-09  1:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add documentation for git-pack-intersect Lukas Sandström
2005-11-09  1:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add git-pack-intersect to .gitignore Lukas Sandström
2005-11-09  1:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] Make git-repack use git-pack-intersect Lukas Sandström
2005-11-09 11:19 ` [PATCH 0/4] Add git-pack-intersect Petr Baudis
2005-11-09 11:58   ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2005-11-09 23:24     ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-10  0:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 23:16   ` [PATCH] Rename git-pack-intersect to git-pack-redundant Lukas Sandström

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