It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature. It should be documented as "git-unpack-objects < $pack; rm $pack" is something one would deem correct at first glance (luckily I just moved the pack away and did git-fsck-cache). To write an object, git-unpack-objects ends in unpack-objects.c:write_object -> sha1_file.c:write_sha1_file: /* Normally if we have it in the pack then we do not bother writing * it out into .git/objects/??/?{38} file. */ This indeed works, so the files aren't unpacked. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html