Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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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