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Subject: Re: git pull & git gc
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:58:15 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:41:59PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If not, I made some mistake in analyzing this and we'll start again.
> 
> I did make one mistake, the first "gc" should have reduced the number
> of loose objects to zero. Why didn't it.?  I'll come back to this
> tomorrow if nobody finds out first :)

Most likely they are not referenced by anything but are younger than 2
weeks.

I saw a similar issue with automatic gc triggering after every operation
when I did something equivalent to:

	git add <lots of files>
	git commit
	git reset --hard HEAD^

which creates a log of unreachable objects which are not old enough to
be pruned.