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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: How to cut extra liftime of expired loose objects
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 18:43:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574C6D9B.1080200@kdbg.org> (raw)

I think there is logic somewhere in git gc or its minions that gives 
expired objects that have been packed a two weeks extra life time as 
loose objects.

That is, reachable loose objects are moved to a pack, but those objects 
that were packed, but become unreachable due to expired reflogs, are 
evicted from the pack and live for another two weeks or so as loose objects.

As a consequence of this, I always have a few thousand loose objects in 
my busy repositories, no matter how often I collect garbage. Is there a 
knob that removes the extra lease of life of objects without reducing 
the usual expiration times of reflogs etc?

-- Hannes

             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-30 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-30 16:43 Johannes Sixt [this message]
2016-05-30 18:24 ` How to cut extra liftime of expired loose objects Jeff King
2016-05-30 18:53   ` Junio C Hamano

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