On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:17:34PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I have a shell script that trims old history on a cronjob. This is for > a repo that is used to track reports that have limited "life" (like > logs). Old history is trimmed with grafts pointing to an empty "root" > commit. > > Right now, info/graft grows unbound. I am looking for a way to trim > unreachable grafts, I would like to be able to say something like: > > git is-reachable treeish How about: git rev-list --objects --all | cut -d' ' -f1 | grep $(git rev-parse treeish) Add "--reflog" to the rev-list invocation if you want to catch things referenced by the reflog, too. If you're looking for a commit, you can drop the "--objects", and it will run much faster. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html