Hi, On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Sergio Callegari wrote: > I am puzzled by a different behavior when doing housekeeping with git-gc and > git-repack: > > [...] > Done counting 75 objects. > [...] > > while git repack -a -d gives > > Done counting 143 objects. > > I suspect, this has to to with my repository using alternates... (in > fact git-gc and git-repack start behaving identically if I pass the -l > (local) option to repack... can anyone confirm that this is the only > difference? Yes. And if you look in git-gc, you'll see as to why: it uses the -l flag. > Also can anybody confirm whether git repack -a -d actually includes in > the pack also _all_ the "borrowed" objects? I.e. if it is in fact a way > to convert a repository that borrows objects into one that is > self-standing? Yes exactly. Ciao, Dscho - 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