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The ability to "...fatten [the] local repository by packing everything that is needed by the local ref into a single new pack, including things that are borrowed from alternates"[1] is supposed to be provided by the '-a' or '-A' options to repack when '-l' is not used, but there is a flaw. For each pack in the local repository without a .keep file, repack supplies a --unpacked=<pack> argument to pack-objects. The --unpacked option to pack-objects, with or without an argument, causes pack-objects to ignore any object which is packed in a pack not mentioned in an argument to --unpacked=. So, if there are local packs, and 'repack -a' is called, then any objects which reside in packs accessible through alternates will _not_ be packed. If there are no local packs, then no --unpacked argument will be supplied, and repack will behave as expected. [1] http://mid.gmane.org/7v8wrwidi3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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