From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Govind Salinas" Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files? Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:07:56 -0500 Message-ID: <5d46db230805121407pdb3f6fdnd41898d3dde6862b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080512122900.GA13050@mithlond.arda.local> <20080512155243.GA3592@mithlond.arda.local> <20080512184334.GB5160@mithlond.arda.local> <20080512190946.GC5160@mithlond.arda.local> <5d46db230805121310q5a0c6037p769ea091c26284d0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Teemu Likonen" , "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Nicolas Pitre" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 12 23:09:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JvfGT-0002c0-9N for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 23:08:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756037AbYELVIH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755920AbYELVIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:06 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.30]:53415 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755631AbYELVIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:04 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1402311ywe.1 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 14:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.92.12 with SMTP id p12mr8782460ybb.238.1210626476629; Mon, 12 May 2008 14:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.181.17 with HTTP; Mon, 12 May 2008 14:07:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote: > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > Sure. But to decide to track only one branch and exclude the others > > > require some higher level of git knowledge already. At that point if > > > you really care about top packing performances you certainly can deal > > > with the .keep file as well. > > > > I have had some similar problems with .keep files. I cloned a repo I > > created that had a branch that I wasn't interested in. I deleted the > > branch and then I could never get rid of the (large) number of objects > > in that pack until I deleted the .keep and repacked. > > But as soon as you just "git pull" you'll get the deleted branch back. > > If you read the rest of my mail, you will see where I removed it from the hosted server as well. But with difficulty. Thanks, Govind.