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Subject: Re: does a successful 'git gc' imply 'git fsck'
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> But a "gc" does not necessarily run "repack -a" when it does not see
>> too many pack files, so it can end up scanning only the surface of
>> the history to collect the recently created loose objects into a
>> pack, and stop its traversal without going into existing packfiles.
>
> Isn't that the behavior of "git gc --auto", not plain "git gc" ?

True; I missed that Sitaram was running "gc" manually.