Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?

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On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Sure.  But to decide to track only one branch and exclude the others
> >  require some higher level of git knowledge already.  At that point if
> >  you really care about top packing performances you certainly can deal
> >  with the .keep file as well.
> 
> I have had some similar problems with .keep files.  I cloned a repo I
> created that had a branch that I wasn't interested in.  I deleted the
> branch and then I could never get rid of the (large) number of objects
> in that pack until I deleted the .keep and repacked.

But as soon as you just "git pull" you'll get the deleted branch back.


Nicolas
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