Subject: Re: Remove unneeded packs

From: Lukas Sandström <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:07:50 +0100

Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:58:11 +0100 Lukas Sandström wrote:
> 
> 
>>Subject: [PATCH] Make sure all old packfiles are removed when doing a full repack
>>
>>This is nessecary because unrachable objects in packfiles makes git-pack-redundant
>>flag them as non-redundant.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <[email-masked]>
>>
>>---
>>
>> git-repack.sh |   16 +++++++++++++++-
>> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>>applies-to: 9a0f0c748316751fbf593a21f2b16bcdd975095a
>>08df1f641bd3f98a607a8413d647667adc18a633
>>diff --git a/git-repack.sh b/git-repack.sh
>>index f347207..293bb50 100755
>>--- a/git-repack.sh
>>+++ b/git-repack.sh
>>@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ case ",$all_into_one," in
>> 	rev_list=
>> 	rev_parse='--all'
>> 	pack_objects=
>>+	existing=`cd "$PACKDIR" && \
>>+	    find . -type f \( -name '*.pack' -o -name '*.idx' \) -print`
>> 	;;
>> esac
>> if [ "$local" ]; then
>>@@ -60,7 +62,19 @@ mv .tmp-pack-$name.pack "$PACKDIR/pack-$
>> mv .tmp-pack-$name.idx  "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx" ||
>> exit
>> 
>>-if test "$remove_redandant" = t
>>+if test "$all_into_one" = t
> 
> 
> This should be
> 
> if test "$all_into_one$remove_redandant" = tt
> 
> (otherwise "git repack -a" becomes the same as "git repack -a -d").
> 
> 

This was the behaviour before git-pack-redundant, I just restored it.
Someone else gets to decide if git repack -a implies "remove all old packs".