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Re: git help prune accuracy?

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MFMartin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date
Dec 15, 2011, 21:53 UTC
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<201112151453.52157.mfick@codeaurora.org>
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On Thursday, December 15, 2011 02:32:09 pm Martin Fick wrote:

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> I admit that I am guessing here, but I was wondering if
> this paragraph from git help prune was a incorrect, it
> says:
> 
>   This runs git fsck --unreachable using all the refs
>   available in refs/, optionally with additional set of
>   objects specified on the command line, and prunes all
>   unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head
>   objects from the object database. In addition, it
> prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs
> by running git prune-packed.
> 
> The last sentence seems like it should maybe have the
> following fix:
> 
> s/it prunes the unpacked/it prunes the unreferenced/
Ack, I meant:
s/it prunes the unpacked/it prunes the unreachable/
-Martin
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