From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:47:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.
Message-ID: <7vek8t8sgi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508141726390.3553@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> We've got a "git prune-packed", it would be good to have a "git
> prune-alternate" or something equivalent.

If you have GIT_ALTERNATE_DIRECTORIES environment variable, git
prune-packed will remove objects from your repository if it is
found in somebody else's pack.  I am not sure if this is the
behaviour we would want.