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

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote (2008-05-14 00:46 +0300):

Teemu Likonen wrote:

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This way the "daily" gc would operate very fast (as it leaves .keep
packs alone), and with gc --aggressive user could easily decide when to
create new landmark .keep packs (and also prune possible dangling
objects inside previous .keep packs). Normal user don't need to know the
details. Just run gc occasionally and maybe gc --aggressive when better
optimization is needed.

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How does this sound?

It sounds sound :-).
I like the simplicity.

It turned out that gc --aggressive is not what I thought it was, i.e.
"pack aggressively and efficiently". So my suggestion implies the
semantics that --aggressive would do effective compressing.