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Re: `git prune` doc or implementation defect, or user misunderstanding

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Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com>
Date
May 8, 2013, 16:05 UTC
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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> git gc moves unreachable objects that were packed before to the loose
> object store, from where they can be pruned.
Thanks. That was the piece I was missing. I assumed `git gc` did the opposite.
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