From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:23:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: remove deprecated --prune from git-gc
Message-ID: <m3hc57dmrl.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812141137350.2014@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> 
> > -		__gitcomp "--prune --aggressive"
> > +		__gitcomp "--aggressive"
> 
> git gc --prune is deprecated?  That's news to me.

More like "git gc --prune" is no-op now.
 
> How would you suggest, then, to remove the loose objects you always get 
> with conflicts in a merge?

"git gc" does pruning of loose objects, but protected by grace period
for loose objects with gc.pruneexpire

You always have (admittedly lowe level) git-prune.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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