From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:01:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Message-ID: <20080508210125.GC32762@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0805082232070.4260@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:19PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

>> And be assured that the objects referenced by a deleted branch will be  
>> removed from the repository eventually as long as 'git gc --prune' is  
>> run periodically.
>
> Ok. I did not know about the 'prune' option yet as it neither mentioned in 
> the "Git Tutorial" nor "Everyday Git", there only 'git gc' is used with no 
> options.

It is deprecated; see 25ee9731.

According to that commit message, prune is now a no-op. However, it
looks like it is still used for trigger a "repack -a" rather than
"repack -A". I don't know if it is worth making that behavior available
through some more sane command line option (I would think people who
really know that they want "repack -a" would just call it).

-Peff