Re: Blobs not referenced by file (anymore) are not removed by GC

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:15:31PM +0000, Roberto Tyley wrote:

> > Not that I expect you to want to work on filter-branch. :) But maybe
> > food for thought for a BFG feature.
> 
> I haven't heard much demand for a recover/restore feature on the BFG
> (I think by the time people get to the BFG, they're pretty sure they
> want to go ahead with the procedure!) but I'll bear it in mind. Mind
> you, to make the post-rewrite clean-up easier, 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).

-Peff
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