Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-08 Thread Pete French
On 06/01/2021 15:47, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: That's not entirely correct. The packfile will only be rewritten if a) enough other stuff has accumulated b) you force a repack. You are fighting against git's GC mechanism a bit here, but you can still make it work. On your source of truth host,

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-06 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 11:08:48 +, Pete French wrote: So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit one issue. What I do is to build on a single machine, and then send that to a number of places using

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete French
On 05/01/2021 15:58, Chris wrote: Brilliant minds think alike. I use nearly the same routine. ;-) Always good to know that I am not doing something completely idiotic ;) OTOH it won't be (easily) possible to "up" the repo(s) from the receiving hosts w/o the .git. Yes, this is my issue

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-05 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-05 03:08, Pete French wrote: So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit one issue. What I do is to build on a single machine, and then send that to a number of places using rsync. But what

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-05 Thread Ronald Klop
Van: Pete French Datum: dinsdag, 5 januari 2021 12:08 Aan: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Onderwerp: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git? So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit

How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-05 Thread Pete French
So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit one issue. What I do is to build on a single machine, and then send that to a number of places using rsync. But what seems to happen wuth git is that it has a