Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
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>
> Only -d should honor .keep, imo. .keep-files is nothing about "don't copy
> objects from this file" and all about "never delete this file".
>
> The only muddying comes from you, who decided that .keep-files should
> have impact on anything else than deleting the protected pack. Before that,
> .keep files had a clear semantic, and repack's documentation was correct.
>
> How do you explain .keep-files now? "protects pack-files that will forever
> be used"? Then why the hell is it called ".keep" instead of "eternal"?

The _intent_ behind .keep files has always been to avoid copying
the objects into a new pack during git-repack, because the objects
are held in a pack that cannot be deleted.

Sadly the implementation has never quite worked right, which is
what led to this patch series I think.

-- 
Shawn.
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