Re: git gc == git garbage-create from removed branch

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: May 4, 2012, 07:37 UTC
Message-ID: <4FA38731.8010504@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <hbf.20120503q14w@bombur.uio.no>

On 05/03/2012 08:38 PM, Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:

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> After removing a branch, 'git gc' explodes all objects
> which were only in that branch.  Git filled up my disk that
> way when I had cherry-picked from a big remote repo and then
> did git remote rm.  Tested with Git 1.7.10.1 and 1.7.1.
>

That's by design. It's added to save people who accidentally delete a branch or for some other reason really want to keep the objects they're about to delete.

Use 'git gc --prune=now' with a recent* git and you'll avoid the problem.

* Recent enough to include the patch that avoids writing out loose
objects when they would be auto-deleted by the following pruning.

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