From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:44:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Message-ID: <20080508214454.GA1939@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48237344.6070405@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:40:20PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> The 'prune --expire' behavior is based on object mtime (i.e. file
> modification time).  That is lost once something is packed right?

Yes. You would have to use the pack mtime. But of course you would have
to actually _leave_ them in a pack, or they would just keep getting
added to the new pack.

> I was thinking that either repack or pack-objects could be modified to
> unpack those unreachable objects and leave them loose, and also give
> them the timestamp of the pack file they came from. Then the --expire
> behavior of git-prune could work normally and remove them. This seems
> like it would work nicely since prune follows repack in git-gc.

That is sensible, I think.

-Peff