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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removing unreachable objects in the presence of broken links?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:15:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXPg-GCnkSCZmeA8HKA4hback7aUNpK5AigKKe2z+2uRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdU5ZNFs-_TeUE4ntzCCOp85DSOyWMrjJ=yV76MSmjfxDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a way to force removing unreachable objects in the presence of broken
>>> links?
>>
>> Does it help to forcibly expire the reflogs?
>
> You mean "git reflog expire --all --expire=0"?
>
> After that the reflog is empty, but "git gc" still fails.

Although "git stash list" didn't show anything, .git/refs/stash still contained
one hash.

After running "git stash clear", "git gc" succeeded, and the object pointed to
by .git/refs/stash before was gone.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-11 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 21:21 Removing unreachable objects in the presence of broken links? Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-28 21:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-29 19:56   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-11-11 11:15     ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]

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