On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:40:20PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > The 'prune --expire' behavior is based on object mtime (i.e. file > modification time). That is lost once something is packed right? Yes. You would have to use the pack mtime. But of course you would have to actually _leave_ them in a pack, or they would just keep getting added to the new pack. > I was thinking that either repack or pack-objects could be modified to > unpack those unreachable objects and leave them loose, and also give > them the timestamp of the pack file they came from. Then the --expire > behavior of git-prune could work normally and remove them. This seems > like it would work nicely since prune follows repack in git-gc. That is sensible, I think. -Peff -- 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
