Re: Removing unreachable objects in the presence of broken links?

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Nov 11, 2012, 11:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXPg-GCnkSCZmeA8HKA4hback7aUNpK5AigKKe2z+2uRA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdU5ZNFs-_TeUE4ntzCCOp85DSOyWMrjJ=yV76MSmjfxDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a way to force removing unreachable objects in the presence of broken
>>> links?
>>
>> Does it help to forcibly expire the reflogs?
>
> You mean "git reflog expire --all --expire=0"?
>
> After that the reflog is empty, but "git gc" still fails.

Although "git stash list" didn't show anything, .git/refs/stash still contained one hash.

After running "git stash clear", "git gc" succeeded, and the object pointed to by .git/refs/stash before was gone.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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