On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely
run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in
particular,
- does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I
cloned with -s?
YES! yikes.
This is about the best argument put forth so far for not automatically
running git-gc. Personally, I think git-gc should not remove unreferenced
objects without --prune (but I haven't done anything about it). But even
if git-gc was modified in this way, an occasional git-gc --prune would
still be necessary to remove all of the unreferenced and dangling objects
safely with a human thinking about the shared repo implications (unless
shared repo handling is modified).
-brandon
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