Re: git gc & deleted branches

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2008, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20080508205129.GA32762@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0805082051210.10981@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:55:50PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

> Jeff, I tried it, but it has no effect (see below). There is only the  
> master branch left, and only one commit therein, still it uses the space  
> former occupied by the branch. I'm using git version 1.5.5.1.147.g867f.

It worked fine for me; it's possible, as Brandon mentioned, that it is in a pack already, and only a "repack -a" would get rid of it. FWIW, my steps were:

  # ...same as you for repo and branch creation
  git branch -D test
  git config gc.reflogexpire 0
  git config gc.reflogexpireunreachable 0
  git config gc.pruneexpire now
  git gc
  du -s .git ;# shows 10396

-Peff

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