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Re: is it "git gc --prune=now" or "git gc --prune=all"?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 6, 2019, 00:08 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> ... I do think the documentation
> should recommend "now". Possibly builtin/gc.c should be smarter about
> recognizing "all" in the conditional you quoted, too, though I don't
> know that it's all that important (especially if we tweak the
> documentation).

Yup, as the placeholder for the value is labeled as "<date>", "now" would be the one we should be encouraging.

Thanks.
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  1. Robert P. J. DayMar 2, 2019
  2. Jeff KingMar 5, 2019
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  4. Robert P. J. DayMar 9, 2019
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