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Is it intended behaviour that 'git gc' ignores the 'commitGraph.changedPaths' setting?

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TKTomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl>
Date
Jun 4, 2026, 11:24 UTC
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Hi,

It seems that 'git gc' (and also 'fetch' with 'fetch.writeCommitGraph' enabled) ignore the 'commitGraph.changedPaths' setting.

See the output below, the commands are being executed on a repo that doesn't have a commit-graph generated:

$ git --version git version 2.54.0

$ git config --global --get-all commitGraph.changedPaths true

$ git gc Enumerating objects: 674076, done. Counting objects: 100% (674076/674076), done. Delta compression using up to 16 threads Compressing objects: 100% (137084/137084), done. Writing objects: 100% (674076/674076), done. Total 674076 (delta 524292), reused 673941 (delta 524158), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Enumerating cruft objects: 6160, done. Traversing cruft objects: 12279, done. Counting objects: 100% (6160/6160), done. Delta compression using up to 16 threads Compressing objects: 100% (1802/1802), done. Writing objects: 100% (6160/6160), done. Total 6160 (delta 4314), reused 6160 (delta 4314), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 131458, done.

$ git commit-graph write Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 132865, done. Computing commit changed paths Bloom filters: 100% (132865/132865), done.

As you can see, 'gc' didn't create changed paths bloom filters, only a direct call to 'commit-graph write' did.

Is this intended behaviour? It's very surprising to me.

Also, is there a way to make 'gc' and 'fetch' generate changed path bloom filters?

Thanks, Tomasz

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  1. Tomasz KonojackiJun 4, 2026
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