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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail•com>,
	Martin Scherer <m.scherer@fu-berlin•de>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Blobs not referenced by file (anymore) are not removed by GC
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:07:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbnnbjxoy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141210071119.GA18104@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:11:19 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

>> ... I'd be happy to
>> contribute a patch that gives 'gc' a flag to do the equivalent of:
>> 
>> git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
>> 
>> Maybe:
>> 
>> git gc --purge
>
> Yeah, that is common enough that it might be worthwhile (you probably
> want --expire-unreachable in the reflog invocation, though).

Also you would not want an unconditional --aggressive.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-10 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-08 16:22 Blobs not referenced by file (anymore) are not removed by GC Martin Scherer
     [not found] ` <CAFY1edaEq1zYV0vgSfiPAXU6bqVBzaA-apVnSn8DBMbzcAa2tQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-08 16:47   ` Roberto Tyley
2014-12-09 14:14 ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 16:01   ` Roberto Tyley
2014-12-09 16:11     ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 22:15       ` Roberto Tyley
2014-12-10  7:11         ` Jeff King
2014-12-10 16:07           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-12-10 23:41             ` Roberto Tyley

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