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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: When to repack?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:58:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <epq3nd$pv5$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17856.37016.341839.397309@lisa.zopyra.com

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Bill Lear wrote:

> We have a company repo used by many people throughout the day.  When/how
> can I repack this?  I have come to adopt this approach:
> 
> % mv project project.pack
> % cd project.pack
> % GIT_DIR=. git repack -a -d
> % cd ..
> % mv project.pack project

Repack is safe. You can do it on live repository. It does the save under
temporary name and move to proper place on it's own.

By the way you can use "git --bare repack -a -d" instead of 
"GIT_DIR=. git repack -a -d"
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 12:50 When to repack? Bill Lear
2007-01-31 12:58 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-31 13:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-31 15:19   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-31 15:36     ` Shawn O. Pearce
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-29 10:55 Paul Gardiner
2008-02-29 11:47 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-29 13:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-01  1:00 ` Xavier Maillard

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