On 5/6/08, DigitalPig <digitalpiglee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For git-prune, according to the manual, it will delete all the dangling > objects. So it is easy to understand. However, in the git-gc manpage, > there is another option named "--prune". Does that make git-gc do the > same thing as git-prune? > > And manpage of git-gc says it cleans unnecessary files and compresses > the objects, and git-repack also compresses the objects too. Are there > any difference between these two operations? Or do I need to invoke > git-repack after running git-gc? Thanks! git-gc is a fancy wrapper that automatically calls git-repack and git-prune for you with the most commonly used options, so you usually don't need to run the others yourself. Avery -- 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