Re: Remove unneeded packs

Hi Andreas,

quoted

every time Linus re-creates the pack for his linux-2.6 tree, I end up
with another pack. I use HTTP as transport and thus the new pack will be
download (which is almost 100 MB), but that is fine. However it seems
that the old (previous) pack will never be deleted. For the no longer
needed object files I can use git-prune-packed, but the old pack I have
to identify and delete by myself. Exists an easy and nice way to get rid
of old unneeded packs? Can't git-prune-packed also do this job?

A patchset was posted to the list 2005-11-09 by Lukas Sandström, adding 
"git-pack-intersect" which was subsequently renamed to the more 
appropriate "git-pack-redundant".

If I remember the commit messages and understand your question correctly 
it does what you want.

you are right. It is exactly what I was looking for. I just saw it some
minutes ago, when I pulled the latest git tree. However to make an old
GCC 2.95 happy, the attached patch is needed.

I am not sure if it is fully working. It deletes a lot of old packs, but
in case of the linux-2.6 tree it leaves on additional behind.

.git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.idx
.git/objects/pack/pack-4d7682fb8230fef33eb518fa8e53885ec675795e.pack
.git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.pack
.git/objects/pack/pack-b3c6fbdfa36a326815de6358885c7a570a986b1b.idx

The 4d76... is the current pack, but the b3c6... is an old one that is
not needed anymore.

Regards

Marcel