Paolo Bonzini schrieb: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> On Dec 12, 2007 10:48 PM, Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In the mean time you might have to use only one thread and lots of >>> memory to repack the gcc repo, or find the perfect memory allocator to >>> be used with Git. After all, packing the whole gcc history to around >>> 230MB is quite a stunt but it requires sufficient resources to >>> achieve it. Fortunately, like Linus said, such a wholesale repack is not >>> something that most users have to do anyway. >> >> Is there an alternative to "git repack -a -d" that repacks everything >> but the first pack? > > That would be a pretty good idea for big repositories. If I were to > implement it, I would actually add a .git/config option like > pack.permanent so that more than one pack could be made permanent; then > to repack really really everything you'd need "git repack -a -a -d".
It's already there: If you have a pack .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.pack, then "touch .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.keep" marks the pack as precious. -- Hannes
