On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Luca Milanesio wrote: > > It seems counterintuitive that an operation designed to repack > > objects would be performing maintenance of any sort on refs? > > True, it should not touch info/refs IMHO, as you’re really not > changing any refs. Right. I don't think that the current behavior is a bug, but just that it's doing unnecessary work from within 'git repack' to update the info/refs file when it's known ahead of time that the refs haven't changed. I think it's reasonable to skip this step when repacking, but of course we would still want to update info/packs (assuming that the repack wasn't a noop, of course). Thanks, Taylor
