Comment 3 for bug 326369

Great explanation :)

I'll remember to remove 'pack' from bash-completions

Meanwhile, is there a way to clean up the obsoletes? Would it be safe to
simply delete the contents of that dir?

Robert Collins wrote:
> You shouldn't run 'pack' at all. Generally, bzr takes care of tuning
> your repository. You definitely should not run it before rsyncing,
> because you don't want to rsync data you have before - and packing all
> the data into one file will case rsync to copy it from scratch.
>
> You're right that the docs here could and should be expanded.
>
> As for the reason, we keep a backup of files removed by a write
> operation, removed the next time such a backup is needed. We do this
> because various network servers are not as reliable as we might like,
> and in the event of a failure where new data hasn't hit disk but a
> delete or move has, its much safer to have issued a move (which can be
> reverted) than a delete (which requires an undelete capability on that
> filesystem).
>
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> -Rob
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