Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm OK with having a partial fix, or one that fixes immediate pain > without doing a big cleanup, as long as it doesn't make anything _worse_ > in a user-visible way. And that's really my question: is pruning here > going to bite people unexpectedly (not rhetorical -- I really don't > know)? Yeah, that matches the general guideline I follow when reviewing a patch that claims to make existing things better. And I do not think I can explain to a third person why pruning here is a good idea and won't cause problems, after seeing these patches and the discussion from the sideline. > Right, I think "git gc" is absolutely the place to do such cleanups. My > only complaint was that having it as part of repack may be unexpected.
