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

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Govind Salinas wrote:

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

quoted

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.

If you read the rest of my mail, you will see where I removed it from the
hosted server as well.  But with difficulty.

Thanks,
Govind.