From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:17:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Message-ID: <20080508211734.GA819@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805081712270.23581@xanadu.home>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > 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
> 
> Well, actually this is a problem.
> 
> I think it is a good thing to deprecate gc --prune.  but if that means 
> that repack -a is never used then unreferenced and expired objects will 
> never be pruned if they're packed if one is always using 'git gc' as we 
> are advocating.

I thought that -A would eventually put them all into a single pack,
killing off the old packs.

-Peff