From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remove "historical" objects from repository to save place
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:46:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbqy5l0er.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86slrhe270.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "21 Jan 2006 12:49:39 -0800")
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> Junio> Most likely what the original requestor cloned from Linus has
> Junio> been already packed so git-prune would not do much.
>
> Wait. Does that mean that:
>
> $ git-checkout -b playground
> $ work work work
> $ git-commit -m 'snapshot'
> $ git-checkout -b master
> $ git-repack -a -d
>
> means that even if I do
>
> $ git-branch -d playground
> $ git-repack -a -d
>
> I still have the commit from playground as objects inside my one big pack?
Repack retraces from all the available refs, so that is fine.
Pasky was talking about prune, which is a different animal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-21 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-21 19:18 Remove "historical" objects from repository to save place Andrey Borzenkov
2006-01-21 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-21 20:06 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-21 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-21 20:49 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-01-21 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-01-21 23:27 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-01-21 21:46 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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