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

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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
If you read the rest of my mail, you will see where I removed it from the
hosted server as well.  But with difficulty.

Thanks,
Govind.
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