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Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 1, 2005, 02:47 UTC
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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> 
> Linus> Start a new branch before the sequence you want to clean
> Linus> up. Then, move the cleaned-up history to that branch, and
> Linus> eventually you can just delete the old one.
> 
> So if I toss something in git/refs, the objects pointed to by that are
> eventually reclaimed?  Do I need to git-fsck-objects to do that?  Or
> is there some cg command to do the whole thing?

You can do "git prune". It's pretty expensive, though, and the extra objects don't _hurt_, so there's no reason to do pruning very aggressively. I tend to prune immediately just because I run git-fsck-objects all the time, and if you don't prune, it will nag you about "dangling commit".

You may also decide to just rename the old broken branch. Keeping it around for local historical reasons and never push it out.

		Linus
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  1. waltOct 31, 2005
  2. Martin LanghoffOct 31, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  7. wa1ter@myrealbox.comOct 31, 2005
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  9. waltOct 31, 2005
  10. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsNov 1, 2005
  12. Joel BeckerOct 31, 2005
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  28. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
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  60. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
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