On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:59:15PM +0100, Andreas Amann wrote: > Thank you for your answer. However, this reasoning only applies to loose > objects and not packfiles. > > My understanding is that "git prune" will not prune any pack files > (except those starting with tmp_). Only "git repack" should do that. > Repack seems to be however mtime agnostic and therefore it does not seem > to be necessary to freshen packfiles. > > It therefore seems that git freshens packfiles unnecessarily, which can > lead to expensive and unnecessary backup operations. > > Given this, would a trivial patch to remove the freshening of packfiles > be acceptable? I'm not familiar enough with the code to say for certain, but it looks like you're right. Peff, Junio, do you think this is safe, or is there something we're missing? -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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