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Testing for commit reachability through plumbing commands

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 6, 2014, 17:17 UTC
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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...

This repository has a couple hundred branches (one per server tracked). For a single branch, I can picture a relatively easy approach with git merge-base.

thanks!
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