Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I wanted to have the smallest footprint as possible in the objects > directory, and the .git/objects directory currently only holds > folders. When we cull stale files from pack directory, we rely on the related files to share pack-<hash>.* pattern. It is better not to contaminate the directory with unrelated cruft. As this is purely optional auxiliary information used for optimization, perhaps .git/objects/info is a better place? I dunno. In any case, even if its default position ends up in .git/objects/pack/, if this thing conceptually does not have any ties with packs (i.e. it is not a corruption if the graph file also described topologies including loose objects, and it is not a corruption if the graph file did not cover objects in all packs), then the end user visible option name shouldn't say "--pack-dir". "--graph-dir" that defaults to .git/objects/pack/ might be acceptable but it still feels wrong.
