From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:32:49 GMT
Subject: Re: dangling commits
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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