Re: Remove unneeded packs

Hi Lukas,

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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.

This is most likley because the pack b3c6... contains unreachable objects.
git-pack-redundant only makes sure that all objects present in packfiles
still are present in packfiles after the redundant packs have been removed.

Thus, unreachable objects will also be considered as required.

Note that I haven't checked if this is the cause in this particular case,
but I have the same packfiles (I use the HTTP transport too).

maybe these packs are from a previous bad update. The cloned repository
I found it, is actually quite old. When I checked it with some others it
seems that it works perfect.

I'm thinking of the possibility passing a list of objects to be ignored
on stdin to git-pack-redundant. This would hopefully solve this problem.

Sounds good, but I don't even know what objects are involved in this
case and stops it from being marked as redundant.

Regards

Marcel