Re: Question: How to execute git-gc correctly on the git server

> > A "git gc" on a "live" repo is always racy in theory, but the odds that
> > you'll run into data corrupting trouble tends to approach zero as you
> > increase the gc.pruneExpire setting, with the default 2 weeks being more
> > than enough for even the most paranoid user.
> 
> And that two weeks expiration applies to what, exactly?
> 
> For commits there is author date and commit date but many other objecs
> won't have these I suppose. And the date when the object is pushed into
> the repository is unrelated to these two, anyway.