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From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Delete a commit
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:01:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091221210137.GA17695@marge.bs.l> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hgocfi$pge$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi,

Am Montag, 21. Dez 2009, 18:49:36 +0100 schrieb Johan 't Hart:
> Bertram Scharpf schreef:
>
>>   % git fsck --lost-found
>>   dangling commit 6abc221327e896c850c56dafae92277bcfe68e2b
>> It is still there. This is the one I want to delete.
>
> It is not in the history of any head anymore, so you could consider it 
> deleted. ('git log' does not show this commit)
>
> If you want to prune unreferenced objects, try:
> git prune
>
> ('git help prune' for options)

In the meantime I detected the gc.pruneExpire config variable. I
didn't get that to work on all versions that I have installed on
different machines, but I just wanted to understand what has to
happen with the commit.

Thank you!

Bertram


-- 
Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-21 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-19 23:39 Delete a commit Bertram Scharpf
2009-12-19 23:43 ` James P. Howard, II
2009-12-20  0:06 ` Johan 't Hart
2009-12-20  0:43   ` Bertram Scharpf
2009-12-20  8:37     ` Pascal Obry
2009-12-21 17:49     ` Johan 't Hart
2009-12-21 18:17       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-21 21:01       ` Bertram Scharpf [this message]

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