Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Seeing "--stale-fix" again reminded me: that may be the "oops, we can > spend tons of CPU walking history" bit that I mentioned in the other > part of the thread. But I don't think git-gc would ever run with that > option. The option was a purely transitional measure to recover from a bad reflog state that could have been left by earlier versions of "prune" and "repack" that did not pay attention to the reflog. Perhaps we should plan to deprecate and remove it by now?