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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 14:39:26 -0400
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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

> [gc]
>         reflogExpire = 0
>         reflogExpireUnreachable = 0
>         rerereresolved = 0
>         rerereunresolved = 0
>         packrefs = 1

git-gc uses a "safe" pruning mode, where it only prunes unreferenced
objects that are older than a certain period (this makes it safe to run
git-gc, even if other processes are creating objects at the same time).

So try

[gc]
        pruneExpire = now

Alternatively, you can just run 'git prune' manually instead of 'git
gc'.

> I also tried 'git-pack-refs --all' or 'git-pack-refs --prune' but to no  
> avail.

Those won't help at all; they are purely about moving refs from
individual files into the 'packed-refs' file.

-Peff