----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Andrew Martin" <amartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:52:46 AM > Subject: Re: git object-count differs between clones > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:21:17AM -0600, Andrew Martin wrote: > > > > You may try expiring your reflog and "git gc" again. > > > > Thanks, I found some commits that are not referenced in any branch. How can > > I > > remove these from the reflog? I tried running > > "git reflog expire --expire=now --expire-unreachable=now --all" followed by > > "git gc" but still the same number of objects remain. > > Are the objects now loose, or still in packs? Git has a grace period for > pruning objects, so that we do not delete objects for an in-progress > operation. The life cycle of an unreferenced object should be something > like: > > - reachable by reflogs, which are pruned after 30 days (or > gc.reflogExpireUnreachable config). Objects will be repacked as > normal during this time. Override with "reflog expire" as you did > above. > > - after the reflog expires, the objects are now unreachable. During > the next repack, they'll be ejected from the pack into loose > objects, and their mtimes set to match the pack they came from > (which is probably quite recent if you just repacked!). > > - after 2 weeks (or gc.pruneExpire), unreachable loose objects are > dropped by "git prune", which is called as part of "git gc". This is > based on the object mtime. > > You can accelerate this with "git gc --prune=now" (or > "--prune=5.minutes.ago"). > > -Peff Jeff, Thanks for the clarification. I now ran "git repack -A" followed by "git gc --prune=now", however I am still seeing the same number of objects. What else can I try to successfully mark these and unreachable and garbage collect them? Thanks, Andrew -- 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