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

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

 Sure.  But to decide to track only one branch and exclude the others
 require some higher level of git knowledge already.  At that point if
 you really care about top packing performances you certainly can deal
 with the .keep file as well.

I have had some similar problems with .keep files.  I cloned a repo I
created that had a branch that I wasn't interested in.  I deleted the
branch and then I could never get rid of the (large) number of objects
in that pack until I deleted the .keep and repacked.

But as soon as you just "git pull" you'll get the deleted branch back.


Nicolas