From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git gc == git garbage-create from removed branch
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:37:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA38731.8010504@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbf.20120503q14w@bombur.uio.no>
On 05/03/2012 08:38 PM, Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
> After removing a branch, 'git gc' explodes all objects
> which were only in that branch. Git filled up my disk that
> way when I had cherry-picked from a big remote repo and then
> did git remote rm. Tested with Git 1.7.10.1 and 1.7.1.
>
That's by design. It's added to save people who accidentally
delete a branch or for some other reason really want to keep the
objects they're about to delete.
Use 'git gc --prune=now' with a recent* git and you'll avoid the
problem.
* Recent enough to include the patch that avoids writing out loose
objects when they would be auto-deleted by the following pruning.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-03 18:38 git gc == git garbage-create from removed branch Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-04 7:37 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2012-05-04 8:58 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
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