Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?

["David Tweed" <david.tweed@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Teemu Likonen wrote (2008-05-12 15:29 +0300):
> Probably a crazy idea: What if "gc --aggressive" first removed *.keep
> files and after packing and garbage-collecting and whatever it does it
> would add a .keep file for the newly created pack?

My understanding is that the repacking with -a redoes the computation
to repack ALL the objects in every pack and loose objects, whereas
what would be preferred is to try to delta new objects (loose and
packed) against the existing .keep pack (extending it with the new
objects) but not trying to re-deltify objects in the .keep pack. This
is because .keep files are primarily for those who are cloning onto a
machine that isn't powerful (maybe even a laptop/palmtop) but who are
cloning from a powerful server, so that you wouldn't necessarily want
to apply your strategy unconditionally.

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