Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: remove deprecated --prune from git-gc

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:23:39 -0800 (PST)

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> 
> > -		__gitcomp "--prune --aggressive"
> > +		__gitcomp "--aggressive"
> 
> git gc --prune is deprecated?  That's news to me.

More like "git gc --prune" is no-op now.
 
> How would you suggest, then, to remove the loose objects you always get 
> with conflicts in a merge?

"git gc" does pruning of loose objects, but protected by grace period
for loose objects with gc.pruneexpire

You always have (admittedly lowe level) git-prune.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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