Re: Testing for commit reachability through plumbing commands

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mar 6, 2014, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID: <877g879lwp.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFCJLyE6XC9dY_eawe2y9gS4YsPdTbqkKAd0dcPXd5-eMCg@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

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> I have a shell script that trims old history on a cronjob. This is for
> a repo that is used to track reports that have limited "life" (like
> logs). Old history is trimmed with grafts pointing to an empty "root"
> commit.
>
> Right now, info/graft grows unbound. I am looking for a way to trim
> unreachable grafts, I would like to be able to say something like:
>
>  git is-reachable treeish
>
> Grepping through docs and existing code hasn't helped, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious...

Does git fsck --unreachable --no-reflogs help?

Andreas.

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