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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Question about git-prune
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:18:01 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
> ...
> > > $git-prune
> > > $git-fsck
> > > dangling tree c642c018aa55d39fff061183f58062de9d8375ac
> > > dangling commit e1341abc3759950e891822088cb0163b71b316b3
> > > dangling commit 9f38e1ef7e7992ca490b9b419f52fb4d11efb0e4
> > > dangling commit b82871b3c32faa8a317007f343fdf2d0ddc9954e
> > 
> > Probably the objects were packed.
> 
> I also tried git-prune-packed, which also did nothing AFAICT.

git-prune-packed prunes objects which are loose _and_ packed.

> > I do not understand why you use git-prune directly, to begin with. Why 
> > not use git-gc and be done with it?
> 
> It didn't exist when I started using git.  I normally don't use 
> git-prune either, but in this case I was just scanning for problems 
> after switching from cg-update to git-pull.

Fair enough.

> git-gc did get rid of all the danglers even though git-prune didn't. 
> I'll do some investigating to find out why -- that should get me more up 
> to date with recent changes.

The thing you needed was actually git-repack (which is called with every 
necessary option you need from git-gc).

Basically, your objects were dangling _and_ packed. Thus you had to repack 
in order to get rid of them, but keep the others.

Ciao,
Dscho