From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:11:44 GMT
Subject: Re: "git gc" doesn't seem to remove loose objects any more
Message-ID: <flFRWuefszqSabGvIxamBeKJiW26VnyHEVC9IErJWJA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <20081215155610.GA11502@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso wrote:
> I've
> often wished for a --yes-I-know-what-I-am-doing-and-it's-unsafe-but-
> just-drop-the-unreachable-objects-cause-this-is-just-a-tracking-repository
> option to "git gc".

repack -a -d -l

Notice the lowercase 'a'.

git-gc calls repack with uppercase 'A' which is what causes the unreachable
objects to be unpacked. Little 'a', is for people who know what they are
doing, and want git to just drop unreachable objects.

-brandon