[merge] document the pack format
James Westby
jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Oct 24 19:57:48 BST 2007
On (24/10/07 10:53), Martin Pool wrote:
> +obsolete_packs/ packs that have been repacked and are no
> + longer normally needed
When do packs enter here? When are they removed?
I am guessing this is in a repack operation. Does it just build up cruft?
There was a recent git conversation where they realised that all
operations need to be automatic by default, as only 0.1% of developers
will ever actually run the maintenance commands, if they even realise
they are supposed to.
I applaud the automatic repack then, I would just be wary of the
(only disk?) overhead that would arise from too much accumulating here.
Along the same lines, I guess a repack operation will still no nothing
for unreferenced revisions, as they repository doesn't know about the
branches, and packs don't change that.
Thanks,
James
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