Re: git object-count differs between clones

From: Andrew Martin <amartin@xes-inc.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2016, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <203317792.714602.1454430077194.JavaMail.zimbra@xes-inc.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7finm6v8.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

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> From: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
> To: "Andrew Martin" <amartin@xes-inc.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:09:31 AM
> Subject: Re: git object-count differs between clones
> 
> Andrew Martin <amartin@xes-inc.com> writes:
> 
> > I ran "git fsck" on both, which reported no problems. Moreover, I ran "git
> > gc"
> > and made sure there were no objects pending garbage collection,
> 
> It's not sufficient: you may have objects reachable from your reflog,
> hence not candidate for garbage collection. Since the reflog is not
> propagated, pushing + cloning will not transfer these objects if the
> reflog is the only way to reach them.
> 
> You may try expiring your reflog and "git gc" again.
>

Matthieu,

Thanks, I found some commits that are not referenced in any branch. How can I remove these from the reflog? I tried running "git reflog expire --expire=now --expire-unreachable=now --all" followed by "git gc" but still the same number of objects remain.

Thanks,

Andrew