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>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

Linus> Start a new branch before the sequence you want to clean
Linus> up. Then, move the cleaned-up history to that branch, and
Linus> eventually you can just delete the old one.

So if I toss something in git/refs, the objects pointed to by that are
eventually reclaimed?  Do I need to git-fsck-objects to do that?  Or
is there some cg command to do the whole thing?

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