# garbage collection following a "git remote rm"? 2 messages from 2018-09-15 to 2018-09-15. Participants: Robert P. J. Day, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49353 ## Robert P. J. Day, 2018-09-15 14:31 Subject: garbage collection following a "git remote rm"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.1809151027350.17253%40localhost.localdomain ``` i've never checked before, but i assume that if i add a remote, then fetch from it and subsequently remove that remote, all of the now-unreferenced remote tracking branches in the object store will eventually be discarded by garbage collection, yes? is there a command (git fsck?) that would display exclusively objects in the object store corresponding to objects that are suddenly unreferenced due to the removal of a remote? i was just curious as it would be neat to demo that in a class. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2018-09-15 16:00 Subject: Re: garbage collection following a "git remote rm"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqh8iqagyv.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: ``` "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > is there a command (git fsck?) that would display exclusively > objects in the object store corresponding to objects that are suddenly > unreferenced due to the removal of a remote? fsck gives you dangling ones (and can be told to give you unreachable ones, too) but the list will be more like "these are unreachable, period". It won't be like "these are the ones that recently became unreacable, and I am not listing ones that were unreachable already in N hours ago". ```