Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
Default for ref-packed repositories is to pack only the tags,
therefore you usually do not need this patch. However, it looks
obviously correct to me. A cursory test also showed that it does
not break anything.
> Maybe you want to use this or a similar solution to be
> integrated in stock git.
Unfortunately your patch is white-space corrupted (it has an extra
space on all lines starting with a space, it seems). Therefore I
redid it with this email.
It would be nice to follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches next
time. For example, I guess that you want to sign off on it...
Thanks both.