From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: Dangling blob after git gc Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:53:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20081127135342.GX4746@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <20081127133027.GW4746@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xPLL5cPndR2UZ7Mw" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 27 14:55:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L5hKf-00080P-FS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:55:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752725AbYK0Nxo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:53:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752187AbYK0Nxo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:53:44 -0500 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([212.40.97.103]:43780 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752725AbYK0Nxn (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:53:43 -0500 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8383F580A7; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:53:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA544465E; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:53:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3925611901A1; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:53:42 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --xPLL5cPndR2UZ7Mw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > from man git-gc: >=20 > 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". >=20 > 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. :) --xPLL5cPndR2UZ7Mw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkupmYACgkQe81tAgORUJZ6ZgCglI4mqfvmVgPOYXxaW1ApsuWT MiQAn3xmlToaxgpo5r+D4zzuJG0Tv4/j =esFU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xPLL5cPndR2UZ7Mw--