On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 04:58:32PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 08/04/21 05.22, Jeff King wrote: > > If you are sneaker-netting, you are probably better off to just split > > the pack at byte boundaries with an external tool anyway, for two > > reasons: > > > > - our max-pack-size is just a guideline. It only splits at object > > boundaries so if you have an object bigger than the max, we'll > > exceed it. > > > > - dedicated splitting tools often have useful extra features, like > > k-of-n error correction. > > > What external tools are for splitting packs? Can splitted packs > by such tools still be usable by Git? No, but you can reassemble the parts at the destination before feeding them to Git. On a system with normal posix tools, you can split like: git pack-objects --stdout --all </dev/null | split -b 1m - split-pack- and then after transferring split-pack-* (which are individual 1 megabyte files) to the destination, you can do: cat split-pack-* | git index-pack -v --stdin (There's no error correction in split; tools like rar will do that, and probably others, but it has been ages since I've had to split a file to meet transfer requirements). -Peff
