Hi Shawn, On 2006-10-28 09:21, Shawn Pearce wrote: > Lets say that a pack X is NOT eligible to be repacked if > "$GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-X.keep" exists. > > Thus we want to have the new ".keep" file for historical packs and > incoming receive-pack between steps c and g. In the former case > the historical pack is already "very large" and thus one additional > empty file to indicate we want to retain that pack as-is is trivial > overhead (relatively speaking); in the latter case the lifespan of > the file is relatively short and thus any overhead associated with it > on the local filesystem is free (it may never even hit the platter). Sounds perfect. It would be nice to have whoever creates a pack-*.keep file put something useful as the content of the file, so we'll know what to clean up after abnormal termination: $ grep -l ^git-receive-pack $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/pack-*.keep Eran - To unsubscribe from this list: 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