On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:17:03 +0000, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Krey wrote: > > > I observed (again) an annoying behavior of 'git repack': > > Do you have context for this 'again'? E.g. was this discussed > previously on-list? I think I posted about it, but no discussion. I poked a bit at the code, with not much luck back then. ... > Does using create_tempfile there seem like a good path forward to you? > Would you be interested in working on it (either writing a patch with > such a fix or a test in t/ to make sure it keeps working)? I will look into creating a patch (thanks for the pointers), but I don't see how to make a testcase for this - pre-filling the disk doesn't sound like a good idea. Most people probably won't run in this situation, and then won't have tmp_packs with a dozen GBytes each lying around. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800