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From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 16:53:20 -0500
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Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:40:20PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
>> The 'prune --expire' behavior is based on object mtime (i.e. file
>> modification time).  That is lost once something is packed right?
> 
> Yes. You would have to use the pack mtime. But of course you would have
> to actually _leave_ them in a pack, or they would just keep getting
> added to the new pack.

I had the impression that unreachable objects would not be packed. Maybe it
was more of an assumption.

-brandon