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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:28 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 12 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Well, I don't really have any problems with the current behaviour; it
> just feels a bit strange that, for example, Linus's kernel repository
> grew about 90MB after just one update pull and gc.

That looks really odd.  Sure the repo might grow a bit, but 90MB seems 
really excessive.  How many time did pass between the initial clone and 
that subsequent pull?

> Also, dangling
> objects are kept forever in .keep packs (which are created with "git
> clone", for example).

A pack obtained via 'git clone' will never contain any dangling objects.


Nicolas