Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:

Well, I don't really have any problems with the current behaviour; it
just feels a bit strange that, for example, Linus's kernel repository
grew about 90MB after just one update pull and gc.

That looks really odd.  Sure the repo might grow a bit, but 90MB seems 
really excessive.  How many time did pass between the initial clone and 
that subsequent pull?

Also, dangling
objects are kept forever in .keep packs (which are created with "git
clone", for example).

A pack obtained via 'git clone' will never contain any dangling objects.


Nicolas