Re: [RFC PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script in C.

Martin Fick [off-list ref] writes:

One suggestion would be to change the repack code to create 
pack filenames based on the sha1 of the contents of the pack 
file instead of on the sha1 of the objects in the packfile.  
...
I am not 100% sure if the change in naming convention I 
propose wouldn't cause any problems?  But if others agree it 
is a good idea, perhaps it is something a beginner could do?

I would not be surprised if that change breaks some other people's
reimplementation.  I know we do not validate the pack name with the
hash of the contents in the current code, but at the same time I do
remember that was one of the planned things to be done while I and
Linus were working on the original pack design, which was the last
task we did together before he retired from the maintainership of
this project.