Nicolas Pitre wrote (2008-05-12 14:56 -0400): > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > Well, I don't really have any problems with the current behaviour; > > it just feels a bit strange that, for example, Linus's kernel > > repository grew about 90MB after just one update pull and gc. > > That looks really odd. Sure the repo might grow a bit, but 90MB seems > really excessive. How many time did pass between the initial clone > and that subsequent pull? As I used the kernel repo just for testing this behaviour in question I did both things today. Timestamps tell that there were six hours between the initial .keep pack and the new pack created by manual "git gc". > > Also, dangling objects are kept forever in .keep packs (which are > > created with "git clone", for example). > > A pack obtained via 'git clone' will never contain any dangling > objects. I think it can contain at some later point. For example, if a user first fetches all the branches but later decides to track only one branch. After deleting unneeded tracking branches and expiring the reflog there'll be dangling objects in the original .keep pack created with "git clone". -- 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
