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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: pruning recipe for destructive
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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:51:15 +0100
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	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
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Hi,

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:14:39 +0100, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> Add a section about how to shrink a repository's size after running
> git-filter-branch to remove large blobs from history.

Good idea.

> +* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire \--expire=now \--all`.
> +
> +* Repack to remove packed objects with `git repack -ad`.
> +
> +* Prune unpacked unreferenced objects with `git prune \--expire=now`.

Is the --expire=now actually needed for prune? The way I read it
git-prune(1), it defaults to pruning everything anyway.

-Jan