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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Luca Milanesio <luca.milanesio@gmail.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin Fick <mfick@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: Should object repacking only update server-info for packs instead of doing it for refs?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:25:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zw2MVqi0FLcMuR8Z@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569E3AEA-AC68-4186-B38C-2E47DAB9890E@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Luca Milanesio wrote:
> > It seems counterintuitive that an operation designed to repack
> > objects would be performing maintenance of any sort on refs?
>
> True, it should not touch info/refs IMHO, as you’re really not
> changing any refs.

Right. I don't think that the current behavior is a bug, but just that
it's doing unnecessary work from within 'git repack' to update the
info/refs file when it's known ahead of time that the refs haven't
changed.

I think it's reasonable to skip this step when repacking, but of course
we would still want to update info/packs (assuming that the repack
wasn't a noop, of course).

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-14 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-14 20:07 Should object repacking only update server-info for packs instead of doing it for refs? Martin Fick
2024-10-14 20:33 ` Luca Milanesio
2024-10-14 21:25   ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2024-10-15 11:02     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:52       ` Luca Milanesio
2024-10-15 12:14         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 13:56           ` Taylor Blau

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