From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 06:58:16 -0500 Message-ID: <625fc13d0605040458q1018c7ccl79e8effe23edf7d8@mail.gmail.com> References: <625fc13d0605011552j4189338bx14083657acffc18e@mail.gmail.com> <7vu089qr4t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <625fc13d0605031035l721ab08dmee6f870abb49f4e4@mail.gmail.com> <625fc13d0605031044y2ff03ed2h261db5455b234254@mail.gmail.com> <625fc13d0605031731v7b65a738r6fc0169958235928@mail.gmail.com> <20060504100237.GA10548@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Junio C Hamano" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 04 13:58:39 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 1FbcTU-0005Bv-Tr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 13:58:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750946AbWEDL6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 07:58:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750950AbWEDL6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 07:58:18 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:27837 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945AbWEDL6R convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 07:58:17 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so271694ugc for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 04:58:16 -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=eE1IfqkjLnx4+2nBBdsQliwLCglYOU6lQfOXYrbysH3mjWMCxN0QmW8LSBXX67elqqJ3TOJMd65TiKcYuOx4qsD/xPjeUOkPyt5hNjOwiaXk3V0jdms2cm7J35t2P9qQESbRNWeMK22UggzTw+59ZX8+GqjZTNrXf4a5oLboCHs= Received: by 10.78.21.7 with SMTP id 7mr68672huu; Thu, 04 May 2006 04:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.29.19 with HTTP; Thu, 4 May 2006 04:58:16 -0700 (PDT) To: "Marco Roeland" In-Reply-To: <20060504100237.GA10548@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/4/06, Marco Roeland wrote: > On Wednesday May 3rd 2006 Josh Boyer wrote: > > > >It does. That's what the "-a" (for "all") does. > > > > Odd. On one of my repos, I was seeing the correct behavior. On > > another, there were multiple packs left after doing the 'git repack -a > > -d'. Were there ever some packing bugs in older versions of git that > > would have maybe produced some packs that wouldn't get deleted or > > something? > > Have you checked with "git fsck-objects" that maybe the "remaining" > packs contained non-reachable objects like dangling commits from resets > or from following volatile branches like +pu? This was on a kernel repo, so no branches. But dangling commits from resets might have been present. I can't tell now since I undid all that packs and redid them into a single. Thanks for the suggestion though, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable explanation. josh