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

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:24:14PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:

quoted

But I have experienced the same earlier with some other post-1.5.5
version so I believe you can reproduce this yourself. After cloning
Linus's linux-2.6 repo its .git directory weights 209MB. After single
"git pull" and "git gc" it was 298MB in my test.

I noticed that a while ago: when repacking multiple packs when one has a
.keep file, the resulting additional pack contains too many blobs and
trees, contrary to when only packing loose objects:

(...)

That is, it seems to also contain all the blobs and subtrees for all the
commits the pack contains, even when they already are in the pack having
a .keep file.

Mike