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Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ThinkPad-E14-Gen-6 ([220.158.168.165]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2ae83e78d48sm124081475ad.22.2026.03.09.07.22.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 19:52:10 +0530 From: Yuvraj Singh Chauhan To: Christian Couder Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Improving disk space recovery for partial clones (GSoC 2026) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 02:46:06PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote: > Hi Yuvraj, > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM Yuvraj Singh Chauhan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm interested in working on the "Improve disk space recovery for partial clones" project. > > I am studying the codebase, particularly promisor-remote.c, builtin/backfill.c, > > and the partial clone documentation. > > Thanks for your interest in Git and this project. > > > I have a question to clarify the scope and direction of the project. > > The project description mentions that git-backfill vs git-gc vs > > git-repack vs git-maintenance is still undecided. > > Has there been any recent discussion or consensus on this? > > I want to make sure my proposal aligns with the community's direction. > > I don't think that there is a consensus on this. It seems to me that > someone said that git-backfill was likely not the best command for > this, but I don't remember where and when this happened. It could have > been in a private discussion. > > Best. So should I understand the all the different ways and create a document for the command I think would be a good fit and why. And then the community can give their opinion on it? sincerely, Yuvraj