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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Blobs not referenced by file (anymore) are not removed by GC
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:07:09 -0800
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> ... I'd be happy to
>> contribute a patch that gives 'gc' a flag to do the equivalent of:
>> 
>> git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
>> 
>> Maybe:
>> 
>> git gc --purge
>
> Yeah, that is common enough that it might be worthwhile (you probably
> want --expire-unreachable in the reflog invocation, though).

Also you would not want an unconditional --aggressive.