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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Question about git-prune
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:02:16 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:

> $cd src/git
> $git-fsck
> dangling tree c642c018aa55d39fff061183f58062de9d8375ac
> dangling commit e1341abc3759950e891822088cb0163b71b316b3
> dangling commit 9f38e1ef7e7992ca490b9b419f52fb4d11efb0e4
> dangling commit b82871b3c32faa8a317007f343fdf2d0ddc9954e
> $git-prune
> $git-fsck
> dangling tree c642c018aa55d39fff061183f58062de9d8375ac
> dangling commit e1341abc3759950e891822088cb0163b71b316b3
> dangling commit 9f38e1ef7e7992ca490b9b419f52fb4d11efb0e4
> dangling commit b82871b3c32faa8a317007f343fdf2d0ddc9954e

Probably the objects were packed.

I do not understand why you use git-prune directly, to begin with. Why not 
use git-gc and be done with it?

Hth,
Dscho