From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:27:24 GMT Subject: Re: git auto-repack is broken... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 17:22, Linus Torvalds 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.