> Thanks for the suggestion. > > It is slightly wrong, in that we don't sort by size. Instead we sort by > modified time. That makes is a little complicated, but I'll give it > another shot using your framing: > > Create a new pack-file containing objects in small pack-files > referenced by the multi-pack-index. Select the pack-files by > examining packs from oldest-to-newest, adding a pack if its > size is below the batch size. Stop adding packs when the sum > of sizes of the added packs is above the batch size. If the > total size does not reach the batch size, then do nothing. > Rewrite the multi-pack-index to reference the new pack-file. > A later run of 'git multi-pack-index expire' will delete the > pack-files that were part of this batch.
Thanks, this looks good.
