Re: [PATCH 3/4] repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacks

[Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 04:45:29PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> That's not a new problem, but just a spot where the fix doesn't extend.
> Not sure how important it is to do now, or if it can wait for future
> work.

Yeah, good point. I have a fix for it in the subsequent round, though it
did make the overall series longer to accommodate predatory patches that
make the substantive ones easier to grok.

I think that the result is sound, hence its inclusion in v2. I briefly
considered dropping that part of this series altogether to deal with it
another day. But doing so felt irresponsible as the earlier round
pointed out the existence of a bug, the subsequent round should not
ignore it.

On the other hand, as you note, it's not a new problem relative to this
series, and so perhaps leaving it out wouldn't have been so bad. But I
think all thing equal, the patches exist, and I think that they are
sound, so I figured that I'd send them in the following round for
completeness.

The maintainer should however, feel free to avoid queueing that part of
the series if we want to punt on it for now.

Thanks,
Taylor