From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:53:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Dangling blob after git gc
Message-ID: <20081127135342.GX4746@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzljlnuwo.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> from man git-gc:
> 
>      The optional configuration variable gc.pruneExpire controls
>      how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before
>      they are pruned. The default is "2 weeks ago".
> 
> Git can hardly know for sure whether a dangling object is actually a
> temporary object used by another instance of git or actually an unused
> object. Older versions of Git required you to explicitely say --prune
> to mean "OK, _I_ am sure, you can prune the objects", newer do it the
> safe way by removing only objects old enough.

So it was a user error, thanks for pointing out the relevant
documentation. :)