From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>,
Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:17:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080508211734.GA819@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805081712270.23581@xanadu.home>
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > According to that commit message, prune is now a no-op. However, it
> > looks like it is still used for trigger a "repack -a" rather than
> > "repack -A". I don't know if it is worth making that behavior available
>
> Well, actually this is a problem.
>
> I think it is a good thing to deprecate gc --prune. but if that means
> that repack -a is never used then unreferenced and expired objects will
> never be pruned if they're packed if one is always using 'git gc' as we
> are advocating.
I thought that -A would eventually put them all into a single pack,
killing off the old packs.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-08 17:45 git gc & deleted branches Guido Ostkamp
2008-05-08 18:39 ` Jeff King
2008-05-08 18:55 ` Guido Ostkamp
2008-05-08 20:07 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-08 20:52 ` Guido Ostkamp
2008-05-08 21:01 ` Jeff King
2008-05-08 21:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-08 21:17 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-05-08 21:23 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-08 21:31 ` Jeff King
2008-05-08 21:40 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-08 21:44 ` Jeff King
2008-05-08 21:53 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-08 22:48 ` Jeff King
2008-05-09 1:41 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-09 3:21 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <ee63ef30805082105w7f04a2d1y65a4618aeb787cac@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <7v1w4bb291.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2008-05-10 3:32 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-10 4:15 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-10 4:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] leave unreferenced objects unpacked drafnel
2008-05-10 4:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] repack: modify behavior of -A option to " drafnel
2008-05-10 6:03 ` Jeff King
2008-05-11 1:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-11 1:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-11 4:16 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-11 4:51 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-10 4:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-gc: always use -A when manually repacking drafnel
2008-05-10 4:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] builtin-gc.c: deprecate --prune, it now really has no effect drafnel
2008-05-09 4:19 ` git gc & deleted branches Jeff King
2008-05-09 15:00 ` Geert Bosch
2008-05-09 15:14 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-09 15:53 ` Jeff King
2008-05-09 15:56 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-09 16:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-09 16:54 ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-09 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-09 23:09 ` [PATCH] Updating documentation to match Brandon Casey's proposed git-repack patch Chris Frey
2008-05-10 0:07 ` git gc & deleted branches Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-05-10 0:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-10 0:43 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-05-10 1:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-10 1:51 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-05-10 5:25 ` Jeff King
2008-05-10 5:36 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-05-10 9:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-10 16:24 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-05-11 11:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-11 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-08 21:33 ` Guido Ostkamp
2008-05-08 20:56 ` Jeff King
2008-05-08 20:51 ` Jeff King
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