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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:14:18 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904221509550.6741@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqws9cd06b.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > Why so?  Having fewer packs is always a good thing.  Having only one 
> > pack is of course the optimal situation. 
> 
> Good and optimal wrt Git, but not wrt an incremental backup system for
> example.

This goes without saying that git should optimize for its own usage by 
default, and not for a particular backup system.

> I have a "git gc" running daily in a cron job in each of my
> repositories, but to be nice with my sysadmin, I don't want to rewrite
> tens of megabytes of data each night just because I commited a 2 lines
> patch somewhere.

Just add a .keep file along side your .pack file after repacking.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 21:46 dangling commits and blobs: is this normal? John Dlugosz
2009-04-22 15:27 ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 16:53   ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 17:39     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 18:15       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-22 19:08         ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 19:45           ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 19:58             ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 20:07             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-23 11:51           ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-22 19:14         ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2009-04-22 19:26       ` Brandon Casey
2009-04-22 20:00         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 20:05           ` Jeff King
2009-04-22 20:11             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-23 17:43             ` Geert Bosch
2009-04-23 17:56               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-23 18:10                 ` Geert Bosch
2009-04-23 18:17                   ` Matthias Andree
2009-04-23 18:51               ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-22 20:15   ` John Dlugosz

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