Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-10 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:17:56AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > > I suspect the name-change will break a few tools that you > > might want to use to look at a preserved pack (like > > verify-pack). I know that's not your primary use case, > > but it seems plausible that somebody may one day want t

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-09 Thread Martin Fick
On Monday, January 09, 2017 01:21:37 AM Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:11:55AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > > I am replying to this email across lists because I > > wanted to highlight to the git community this jgit > > change to repacking that we have up for review > > > > https:/

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-09 Thread Martin Fick
On Monday, January 09, 2017 05:55:45 AM Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:01:19PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > That's _way_ more complicated than your problem, and > > > as I said, I do not have a finished solution. But it > > > seems like they touch on a similar concept (a > > > po

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-09 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:01:19PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > That's _way_ more complicated than your problem, and as I said, I do not > > have a finished solution. But it seems like they touch on a similar > > concept (a post-delete holding area for objects). So I thought I'd > > mention it in

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:21:37AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:11:55AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > > > I am replying to this email across lists because I wanted to > > highlight to the git community this jgit change to repacking > > that we have up for review > > > > h

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-08 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:11:55AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > I am replying to this email across lists because I wanted to > highlight to the git community this jgit change to repacking > that we have up for review > > https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/87969/ > > This change introduces a new con

Re: Preserve/Prune Old Pack Files

2017-01-04 Thread Martin Fick
I am replying to this email across lists because I wanted to highlight to the git community this jgit change to repacking that we have up for review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/87969/ This change introduces a new convention for how to preserve old pack files in a staging area (.git/objects