Re: [PATCH] prune: --expire=time

From

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date

Jan 22, 2007, 02:40 UTC

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<7virezwzpz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

In-Reply-To

<Pine.LNX.4.64.0701211813410.14248@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> However, now that rebasing ends up being visible in the branch reflog, 
> we're back to the "normally nothing to ever prune" situation, and as such, 
> the only object pruning that _should_ take place is basically as part of 
> "git repack -a -d" (which unlike a prune is actually safe, since it only 
> prunes objects that are reachable from a pack).
>
> So to recap: "git prune" simply isn't a safe thing to do. Don't do it 
> without thinking. I'm not at all sure it's a good idea that "git gc" does 
> it for you, since it just encourages mindless pruning that probably 
> shouldn't happen in the first place.

I guess we are in agreement on this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/git-gc.txt |    1 -
 git-gc.sh                |    1 -
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 2bcc949..f53ca97 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ kept.  This defaults to 15 days.
 
 See Also
 --------
-gitlink:git-prune[1]
 gitlink:git-reflog[1]
 gitlink:git-repack[1]
 gitlink:git-rerere[1]
diff --git a/git-gc.sh b/git-gc.sh
index 6de55f7..7716f62 100755
--- a/git-gc.sh
+++ b/git-gc.sh
@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes
 git-pack-refs --prune &&
 git-reflog expire --all &&
 git-repack -a -d -l &&
-git-prune &&
 git-rerere gc || exit

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1.5.0.rc2