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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Govind Salinas <govind@sophiasuchtig.com>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:06:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805121704140.23581@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d46db230805121310q5a0c6037p769ea091c26284d0@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> >  Sure.  But to decide to track only one branch and exclude the others
> >  require some higher level of git knowledge already.  At that point if
> >  you really care about top packing performances you certainly can deal
> >  with the .keep file as well.
> 
> I have had some similar problems with .keep files.  I cloned a repo I
> created that had a branch that I wasn't interested in.  I deleted the
> branch and then I could never get rid of the (large) number of objects
> in that pack until I deleted the .keep and repacked.

But as soon as you just "git pull" you'll get the deleted branch back.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-12 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 12:29 Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files? Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 15:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 17:13   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-12 18:43     ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 18:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 19:09         ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 19:36           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 20:10             ` Govind Salinas
2008-05-12 21:06               ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2008-05-12 21:07                 ` Govind Salinas
2008-05-12 20:24             ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 21:03               ` Mike Hommey
2008-05-12 21:08                 ` Mike Hommey
2008-05-13  0:12                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13  5:33                     ` Mike Hommey
2008-05-14  1:03                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14  6:43                       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14  9:10                         ` Juergen Ruehle
2008-05-14 14:24                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14 17:03                           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 20:06                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 20:19                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 20:29                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14 20:36                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 23:24                                   ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-05-12 21:07               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 17:17   ` David Tweed
2008-05-12 23:49     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-12 23:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-13  0:09         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13  5:08           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-13  5:22             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13  9:22             ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-13 21:46               ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-14  5:42                 ` Teemu Likonen

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