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

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Of course, the more aggressively we prune, the more we end up having to 
depend on the fact that a commit that is in a pack that is marked "keep" 
must *always* have everything that leads to it in that pack or others also 
marked "keep". We effectively have that already (because we've always 
pruned away the commits early), but it's a thing to keep in mind whenever 
we prune even more aggressively.

I wonder if this is a good thing.  Such a rule would effectively put 
restrictions on how objects like big blobs could be distributed amongst 
many .keep packs.  I just wish we're not painting ourselves in a corner.


Nicolas