From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:30:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vtzjb34y0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > In any case, after 90 days, my reading of the code is that these loose > ones become unreachable, and when we look at their timestamps, we notice > that they are already more than 2 weeks old, and they will immediately > be removed. Yes. In any case, most likely these objects would have been packed anyway during that period, so they would have been pruned by the repack called by git-gc. My patch really, really is about _unreferenced_ loose objects, i.e. something you get by multiple "git add"s without commits. And by merge conflicts. IOW by objects that were never referenced by commit objects. Ciao, Dscho