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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



  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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