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Re: git auto-repack is broken...

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Dec 2, 2011, 16:27 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 17:22, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Maybe we should make "git gc --auto" remove any unreachable objects?

Wouldn't that mean that any loose commit objects you have lying around would be removed by the automatic git gc?

One feature of git that I personally rely on is that I can liberally move heads around / make commits on detached heads and not have those commits gc'd unless I explicitly ask for it for a while.

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