Re: dangling commits

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Jan 16, 2006, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20060116093249.8F939353A3F@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060116085238.GA3768@fiberbit.xs4all.nl>

In message <20060116085238.GA3768@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> you wrote:

> 
> Note that apart from the disk space they use up, dangling commits don't
> do any harm.

I like to have my repository "clean" so there are no warnings normally from git-fsck-objects - if you get used to expect some "harmless" messages you might easily miss a critical error.

> However you can easily get rid of them by using "git prune".

Tried this, didn't work.

> As far as I know although packs are used in transferring the commits to
> your local repository they are stored there as separate objects, so you

Ummm... please have a look at the .git/objects/pack/ directory for example in your Linux repository.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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