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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:05:44 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>
> > The preferred way would be to just list the references somewhere under
> > .git/refs/stgit, in which case fsck and repack should pick them up
> > automatically (so clearly stgit doesn't do that right now ;).
> 
> I thought about adding .git/refs/patches/<branch>/* files
> corresponding to the every StGIT patch. Are the above git commands
> looking at all depths in the .git/refs/ directory?

Yes. Or at least they're supposed to. If they are not, it's a bug 
regardless, and we'll fix it.

> The 'git repack -a' command would include the applied patches in the
> newly created pack but leave out the unapplied ones. It would be even
> better to leave all of them out since the StGIT patches are frequently
> changed but an independent mechanism for this would complicate GIT -
> 'git repack' shouldn't pack any of the objects found in
> .git/refs/patches/, even if they are reachable via .git/refs/heads/*
> (and maybe call the patches directory something like
> .git/refs/unpackable or volatile).

If we have some default location (and .git/refs/patches/ sounds good), we 
can make git do the right thing - find them for git-fsck-objects, and 
ignore them for git-repack.

		Linus