From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dangling blob after git gc
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:53:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081127135342.GX4746@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqzljlnuwo.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> from man git-gc:
>
> The optional configuration variable gc.pruneExpire controls
> how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before
> they are pruned. The default is "2 weeks ago".
>
> Git can hardly know for sure whether a dangling object is actually a
> temporary object used by another instance of git or actually an unused
> object. Older versions of Git required you to explicitely say --prune
> to mean "OK, _I_ am sure, you can prune the objects", newer do it the
> safe way by removing only objects old enough.
So it was a user error, thanks for pointing out the relevant
documentation. :)
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2008-11-27 13:30 Dangling blob after git gc Miklos Vajna
2008-11-27 13:46 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-11-27 13:53 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
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