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Subject: Re: Remove unneeded packs
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:02:47 +0100
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Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> you are right. It is exactly what I was looking for. I just saw it so=
me
> minutes ago, when I pulled the latest git tree. However to make an ol=
d
> GCC 2.95 happy, the attached patch is needed.
>=20
> I am not sure if it is fully working. It deletes a lot of old packs, =
but
> in case of the linux-2.6 tree it leaves on additional behind.
>=20
> .git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.idx
> .git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.pack
> .git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.pack
> .git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.idx
>=20
> The 4d76... is the current pack, but the b3c6... is an old one that i=
s
> not needed anymore.
>=20
> Regards
>=20
> Marcel

This is most likley because the pack b3c6... contains unreachable objec=
ts.
git-pack-redundant only makes sure that all objects present in packfile=
s
still are present in packfiles after the redundant packs have been remo=
ved.

Thus, unreachable objects will also be considered as required.

Note that I haven't checked if this is the cause in this particular cas=
e,
but I have the same packfiles (I use the HTTP transport too).

I'm thinking of the possibility passing a list of objects to be ignored
on stdin to git-pack-redundant. This would hopefully solve this problem=
=2E

/Lukas Sandstr=C3=B6m