Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2011, #02; Mon, 5)

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

What can I do to get "build in repack" [1] series in or moved forward?

Resubmit to re-ignite interest in reviews, perhaps?

As long as it is done right at the implementation level, I do not think
there is anything controversial in the desired end result, iow it is not
like we need three people who want to have repack rewritten in C for it to
happen.

It may be tricky to get the flushing of old and new packfiles right,
though.

Use of reprepare_packed_git() is prerequisite if you want to do it in a
single process, but once you start using that API, it may not gain much
performance benefit to link the whole pack-objects logic in to the process
over a much simpler and less error prone approach of just rewriting the
shell script straight to a small C program that spawns pack-objects
binary.