Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> So how about pack-X{40}.volatile that marks an eligible one for
>> repacking?
>
> Then anyone who has an existing pack would need to create that
> file first as soon as they got this newer version of Git... not
> very upgrade friendly if you ask me.
Ah, I mixed things up completely. You're right. Having .keep
leaves that pack as is (and lack of matching .keep causes it to
be repacked -- people do not have .keep so everything should be
repacked as before).
>> Then we can make "pack-objects --unpacked" to pretend the ones
>> with corresponding .volatile as if the objects in them are
>> loose, without breaking backward compatibility.
>
> Currently I'm changing --unpacked= to match without needing quoting.
> I'm allowing it to match an exact pack name or if it starts with
> "pack-" and matches the last 50 ("pack-X{40}.pack") of the pack name.
I think is a very sane thing to do (I should have done that from
the beginning). I do not like "the last 50", but I do not have
objection to make it take either full path or just the filename
under objects/pack/ (so not "the last 50" but "filename w/o
slash").
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