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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Experimenting with the .keep-files I had a crash in git-log,
> when the pack was renamed into .keep.pack, but the
> index was not. git-log complained about two objects it could not
> read and than crashed. It's cygwin.

This part makes me suspect you are not even using the .keep
properly.  In addition to pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx), you
would have a corresponding pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.keep file (whose
contents does not matter) to mark that these should not get
repacked.