Subject: Re: When to repack?

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:58:37 +0100

[Cc: [email-masked]]

Bill Lear wrote:

> We have a company repo used by many people throughout the day.  When/how
> can I repack this?  I have come to adopt this approach:
> 
> % mv project project.pack
> % cd project.pack
> % GIT_DIR=. git repack -a -d
> % cd ..
> % mv project.pack project

Repack is safe. You can do it on live repository. It does the save under
temporary name and move to proper place on it's own.

By the way you can use "git --bare repack -a -d" instead of 
"GIT_DIR=. git repack -a -d"
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git