Thread (224 messages) 224 messages, 7 authors, 2018-04-06

Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] gc: add --keep-base-pack

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-16 21:05:49

On Fri, Mar 16 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy jotted:
+--keep-base-pack::
+	All packs except the base pack and those marked with a `.keep`
+	files are consolidated into a single pack. The largest pack is
+	considered the base pack.
+
I wonder if all of this would be less confusing as:
+--keep-biggest-pack::
+	All packs except the largest pack and those marked with a `.keep`
+	files are consolidated into a single pack.
I.e. just skimming these docs I'd expect "base" to somehow be the thing
that we initially cloned, of course in almost all cases that *is* the
largest pack, but not necessarily. So rather than communicate that
expectation let's just say largest/biggest?

Maybe I'm the only one who finds this confusing...
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