From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:34:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)
Message-ID: <86r7a1drji.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510311822080.27915@g5.osdl.org>

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

Linus> Start a new branch before the sequence you want to clean
Linus> up. Then, move the cleaned-up history to that branch, and
Linus> eventually you can just delete the old one.

So if I toss something in git/refs, the objects pointed to by that are
eventually reclaimed?  Do I need to git-fsck-objects to do that?  Or
is there some cg command to do the whole thing?

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