From: Eran Tromer <git2eran@tromer.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:31:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4543DA2E.9030300@tromer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028072146.GB14607@spearce.org>
Hi Shawn,
On 2006-10-28 09:21, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Lets say that a pack X is NOT eligible to be repacked if
> "$GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-X.keep" exists.
>
> Thus we want to have the new ".keep" file for historical packs and
> incoming receive-pack between steps c and g. In the former case
> the historical pack is already "very large" and thus one additional
> empty file to indicate we want to retain that pack as-is is trivial
> overhead (relatively speaking); in the latter case the lifespan of
> the file is relatively short and thus any overhead associated with it
> on the local filesystem is free (it may never even hit the platter).
Sounds perfect.
It would be nice to have whoever creates a pack-*.keep file put
something useful as the content of the file, so we'll know what to clean
up after abnormal termination:
$ grep -l ^git-receive-pack $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-*.keep
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 3:44 fetching packs and storing them as packs Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-26 14:45 ` Eran Tromer
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610261105200.12418@xanadu.home>
2006-10-26 22:09 ` Eran Tromer
2006-10-27 0:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-27 1:42 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 2:38 ` Sean
2006-10-27 6:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-27 17:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-27 2:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-27 2:42 ` Eran Tromer
2006-10-27 3:00 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 3:13 ` Sean
2006-10-27 3:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-27 3:27 ` Sean
2006-10-27 4:03 ` Eran Tromer
2006-10-27 4:42 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 7:42 ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27 7:52 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 8:08 ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27 8:13 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 14:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-27 14:38 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-27 14:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-10-27 15:03 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-27 16:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-10-27 16:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-10-27 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-27 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-27 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-28 3:42 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-28 4:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-28 4:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-28 5:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-28 7:21 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-28 8:40 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-28 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-29 3:50 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-29 4:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-29 4:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-29 5:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-29 5:21 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-28 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-28 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-28 22:31 ` Eran Tromer [this message]
2006-10-29 3:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-29 3:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-29 3:52 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-29 7:47 ` [PATCH] send-pack --keep: do not explode into loose objects on the receiving end Junio C Hamano
2006-10-29 7:56 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-29 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-30 1:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
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