Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This patch introduces a new configuration, `pack.extraCruftTips` which > allows the caller to specify a program (or set of programs) whose output > is treated as a set of objects to treat as "kept", even if they are > unreachable and have aged out of the retention period. I can see why this would make the implementation simpler, simply because no existing codepaths that determines if an object is still live knows about such a program hence all the codepaths by default keep considering them expungeable crufts except for a very limited set of codepaths that will pay attention to the program. But it makes me wonder if it would make the life of end-users simpler if we reserve a special ref hierarchy, say "refs/crufts/*", than having to write a program for doing something like this. Thanks.
