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From: "Brandon Casey" <drafnel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The remainder of your email is below since the list has never seen it.
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>> Perhaps we would want a new option --eject that causes pack-object write
>> out unreachable packed objects in the loose format?

Two comments on this.

1) If you decide to go in this direction, I think the option should be
    named --unpack-unreachable rather than --eject.
2) There is some part of me that is against a program named
    pack-objects doing unpacking. But it is probably more efficient
    this way.

-brandon