From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:31:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Message-ID: <20080508213107.GA1016@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48236F69.2060900@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:23:53PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> > I thought that -A would eventually put them all into a single pack,
> > killing off the old packs.
> 
> '-a' puts everything in a single pack and kills off old packs. Anything that
> was unreachable is not repacked in the new pack.
> 
> '-A' does the same thing but it also repacks the unreachable objects that were
> previously packed.

Ah, indeed. I hadn't looked closely at the -A behavior before. So yes,
we are never killing off prunable packed objects. Probably we could use
the same solution as "git prune --expire"; perhaps a
"--keep-unreachable=2.weeks.ago"?

-Peff