From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:41:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago"
Message-ID: <7vk5k733y5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803130028550.1656@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Yes.
>
> In any case, most likely these objects would have been packed anyway 
> during that period, so they would have been pruned by the repack called by 
> git-gc.

Yes, that is the most probable way for these unused cruft to get removed.

> My patch really, really is about _unreferenced_ loose objects, i.e. 
> something you get by multiple "git add"s without commits.  And by merge 
> conflicts.
>
> IOW by objects that were never referenced by commit objects.