From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Testing for commit reachability through plumbing commands
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:17:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g879lwp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFCJLyE6XC9dY_eawe2y9gS4YsPdTbqkKAd0dcPXd5-eMCg@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Langhoff's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:17:34 -0500")
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a shell script that trims old history on a cronjob. This is for
> a repo that is used to track reports that have limited "life" (like
> logs). Old history is trimmed with grafts pointing to an empty "root"
> commit.
>
> Right now, info/graft grows unbound. I am looking for a way to trim
> unreachable grafts, I would like to be able to say something like:
>
> git is-reachable treeish
>
> Grepping through docs and existing code hasn't helped, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious...
Does git fsck --unreachable --no-reflogs help?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 17:17 Testing for commit reachability through plumbing commands Martin Langhoff
2014-03-06 19:17 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-03-06 19:29 ` Martin Langhoff
2014-03-06 20:23 ` Jeff King
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