On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:05 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy jotted:

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+--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:

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+--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?

Keeping the term base pack allows us to change its definition later
(something else other than "largest"). But to be honest I can't see
what else can a base pack(s) be. So unless people object I'm changing
this to --keep-biggest-pack (which could take a value <N> to keep <N>
largest packs, but I will refrain from doing things we don't need
right now).

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

-- 
Duy