When there is no grace period before pruning unreferenced objects, it is pointless to push those objects in their loose form just to delete them right away. Also be more explicit about the possibility of using "now" in the gc.pruneexpire config variable (needed for the above behavior to happen). Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7408bb2..ea0cd97 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -702,7 +702,9 @@ gc.packrefs:: gc.pruneexpire:: When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. - Override the grace period with this config variable. + Override the grace period with this config variable. The value + "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune + unreachable objects immediately. gc.reflogexpire:: 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than diff --git a/builtin-gc.c b/builtin-gc.c index 781df60..f8eae4a 100644 --- a/builtin-gc.c +++ b/builtin-gc.c @@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ static int need_to_gc(void) * there is no need. */ if (too_many_packs()) - append_option(argv_repack, "-A", MAX_ADD); + append_option(argv_repack, + !strcmp(prune_expire, "now") ? "-a" : "-A", + MAX_ADD); else if (!too_many_loose_objects()) return 0; @@ -243,7 +245,9 @@ int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) "run \"git gc\" manually. See " "\"git help gc\" for more information.\n"); } else - append_option(argv_repack, "-A", MAX_ADD); + append_option(argv_repack, + !strcmp(prune_expire, "now") ? "-a" : "-A", + MAX_ADD); if (pack_refs && run_command_v_opt(argv_pack_refs, RUN_GIT_CMD)) return error(FAILED_RUN, argv_pack_refs[0]); -- 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
