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[PATCH] Recommend "git gc --prune=now" instead of "git prune"

From
John Lin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2020, 02:02 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.652.git.1591581739031.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: John Lin <johnlinp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Lin <johnlinp@gmail.com>
---
    Recommend "git gc --prune=now" instead of "git prune"
    
    Signed-off-by: John Lin johnlinp@gmail.com [johnlinp@gmail.com]
    
    Fix according to #642.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-652%2Fjohnlinp%2Ffix-git-gc-warning-message-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-652/johnlinp/fix-git-gc-warning-message-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/652
 builtin/gc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c
index 8e0b9cf41b3..74185eac917 100644
--- a/builtin/gc.c
+++ b/builtin/gc.c
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (auto_gc && too_many_loose_objects())
 		warning(_("There are too many unreachable loose objects; "
-			"run 'git prune' to remove them."));
+			"run 'git gc --prune=now' to remove them."));
 
 	if (!daemonized)
 		unlink(git_path("gc.log"));

base-commit: 20514004ddf1a3528de8933bc32f284e175e1012
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