From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:44:18 -0500 Message-ID: <625fc13d0605031044y2ff03ed2h261db5455b234254@mail.gmail.com> References: <625fc13d0605011552j4189338bx14083657acffc18e@mail.gmail.com> <7vu089qr4t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <625fc13d0605031035l721ab08dmee6f870abb49f4e4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 03 19:44:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbLOg-0007D1-VC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:44:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030268AbWECRoU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:44:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030269AbWECRoU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:44:20 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:60551 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030268AbWECRoT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:44:19 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so139533ugc for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T51KhQT2jcBqKx7WpkDiNUNkbzRjhEgQeD3ooRsBMNA6vTpR506mtGkWzTGn/hW3Ij3v8Z0y7HEneC6SbPuvzu/xDL+rfNS1d+ZJd5xb3WqlPbCsocCzzpy0tPI79yDBqHA46FM7AP5pd5w0bEDalOsmroJ+Fut1fy3lRJvJSY8= Received: by 10.78.57.11 with SMTP id f11mr5377hua; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.29.19 with HTTP; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) To: "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/3/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > > Hm.. so it seems that git-unpack-objects is more intended to unpack a > > pack one has gotten with git-fetch-pack, right? > > Yeah. And for testing. I don't think it ever gets used directly. > > > I was looking for something more along the lines of an > > "un-git-repack", where you have existing pack(s) and want to undo > > them. Maybe you want to repack everything into a single pack or > > something like that. > > That's what you just do "git repack -a -d" for. But that doesn't roll exsisting packs into a new pack, does it? I thought it just packed loose objects into a new pack and deleted them. I ran that on a repo that already had a couple packs in it, and the old packs were still there. josh