Re: git gc & deleted branches

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2008, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20080508183926.GA30613@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0805081920160.8678@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

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> [gc]
>         reflogExpire = 0
>         reflogExpireUnreachable = 0
>         rerereresolved = 0
>         rerereunresolved = 0
>         packrefs = 1

git-gc uses a "safe" pruning mode, where it only prunes unreferenced objects that are older than a certain period (this makes it safe to run git-gc, even if other processes are creating objects at the same time).

So try

[gc]
        pruneExpire = now

Alternatively, you can just run 'git prune' manually instead of 'git gc'.

> I also tried 'git-pack-refs --all' or 'git-pack-refs --prune' but to no  
> avail.

Those won't help at all; they are purely about moving refs from individual files into the 'packed-refs' file.

-Peff

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