Johannes Sixt wrote: > Paolo Bonzini schrieb: >> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >>> >>> Is there an alternative to "git repack -a -d" that repacks everything >>> but the first pack? >> >> That would be a pretty good idea for big repositories. If I were to >> implement it, I would actually add a .git/config option like >> pack.permanent so that more than one pack could be made permanent; then >> to repack really really everything you'd need "git repack -a -a -d". > > It's already there: If you have a pack .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.pack, then > "touch .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.keep" marks the pack as precious. Actually you can (and probably should) put the one line with the _reason_ pack is to be kept in the *.keep file. Hmmm... it is even documented in git-gc(1)... and git-index-pack(1) of all things. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
