From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add git-pack-intersect Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:58:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4371E472.4030902@op5.se> References: <43714EFB.5070705@etek.chalmers.se> <20051109111917.GB30496@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 09 12:59:06 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZobK-00049l-6W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:58:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751398AbVKIL6p convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:58:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751387AbVKIL6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:58:45 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:59780 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbVKIL6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:58:44 -0500 Received: from [82.182.116.45] (1-2-9-7b.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.45]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6D56BCFF for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:58:43 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051109111917.GB30496@pasky.or.cz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:20:59AM CET, I got a letter > where Lukas Sandstr=F6m said that... >=20 >>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. >=20 >=20 > Sounds nice, except the name - it does something else than what the n= ame > says, so perhaps something like 'git-pack-redundant' would be more > appropriate. >=20 It would be better if it was in git-prune or a default action for=20 git-repack. I can't imagine a scenario where keeping redundant packfile= s=20 is useful. --=20 Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231