Re: WARNING: THIS PATCH CAN BREAK YOUR REPO, was Re: [PATCH 2/3] Only repack active packs by skipping over kept packs.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:59:03PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jan Harkes [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The following patch does fix the problem Nicolas reported, but for some
reason I'm still getting only 102 objects (only tags and the commits
they refer to?) with your test.

One potential downside of this is that this makes an obscure but
useful "gitk --unpacked" useless (robs performance).

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19197/focus=19207

If I use 'git fetch' followed later on by a 'git fetch -k', the result
from --unpacked would not include the unpacked objects created by the
first fetch. Although it may have been fast, it seems to be somewhat
counter-intuitive.

But other than that, I think it is an Ok change.  The original
semantics of --unpacked (with or without "pretend as if objects
in this pack are loose") were, eh, "strange".

Do you need a resend with a proper 'Signed-Off-By' line?

Jan