On Jun 12, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At GitHub we actually have a patch to `repack` that keeps all > objects, reachable or not, in the pack, and use it for all of our > automated maintenance. Since we don't drop objects at all, we can't > ever have such a race. Aside from some pathological cases, it wastes > much less space than you'd expect. We turn the flag off for special > cases (e.g., somebody has rewound history and wants to expunge a > sensitive object). > > I'm happy to share the "keep everything" patch if you're interested. We have the same kind of patch actually (for the same reason), but back on the shell implementation of repack. It'd be great if you could share your modern version. Nasser -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- 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