On Thu, 8 May 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:19PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote: > > >> And be assured that the objects referenced by a deleted branch will be > >> removed from the repository eventually as long as 'git gc --prune' is > >> run periodically. > > > > Ok. I did not know about the 'prune' option yet as it neither mentioned in > > the "Git Tutorial" nor "Everyday Git", there only 'git gc' is used with no > > options. > > It is deprecated; see 25ee9731. > > According to that commit message, prune is now a no-op. However, it > looks like it is still used for trigger a "repack -a" rather than > "repack -A". I don't know if it is worth making that behavior available > through some more sane command line option (I would think people who > really know that they want "repack -a" would just call it). Well, actually this is a problem. I think it is a good thing to deprecate gc --prune. but if that means that repack -a is never used then unreferenced and expired objects will never be pruned if they're packed if one is always using 'git gc' as we are advocating. Nicolas -- 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
