From: Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Confused about `git gc`
Message-ID: <4A2E451B.3080600@ubicom.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3ljo14r61.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Looks like I didn't quite understand the actual role of `git gc`. I
>> just thought that `git gc` would remove all unreferenced objects
>> during the unpack-pack process. However, I'm not seeing the result
>> what I was expecting from `git gc`.
>>
>> I'm adding an object into the database, which is ignored by git. Then
>> I expect the object to be removed after `git gc`. But, it's still
>> there.
>>     
>
> [...]
>   
>> What am I overlooking?
>>     
>
> You are probably overlooking the safety introduced to "git gc" to make
> it safer against concurrently run git operations, namely the fact that
> it would not remove new loose objects (it would remove loose objects
> only when they are old enough).
>
>   
Hmm, I see.

    git gc --prune=<date>

helped me remove all loose objects.


Thanks,
Yakup