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




Stephen R. van den Berg wrote (2008-05-14 00:46 +0300):

> Teemu Likonen wrote:
> >This way the "daily" gc would operate very fast (as it leaves .keep
> >packs alone), and with gc --aggressive user could easily decide when to
> >create new landmark .keep packs (and also prune possible dangling
> >objects inside previous .keep packs). Normal user don't need to know the
> >details. Just run gc occasionally and maybe gc --aggressive when better
> >optimization is needed.
> 
> >How does this sound?
> 
> It sounds sound :-).
> I like the simplicity.

It turned out that gc --aggressive is not what I thought it was, i.e.
"pack aggressively and efficiently". So my suggestion implies the
semantics that --aggressive would do effective compressing.
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