Re: git gc & deleted branches

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:19PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> 
> >> And be assured that the objects referenced by a deleted branch will be  
> >> removed from the repository eventually as long as 'git gc --prune' is  
> >> run periodically.
> >
> > Ok. I did not know about the 'prune' option yet as it neither mentioned in 
> > the "Git Tutorial" nor "Everyday Git", there only 'git gc' is used with no 
> > options.
> 
> It is deprecated; see 25ee9731.
> 
> According to that commit message, prune is now a no-op. However, it
> looks like it is still used for trigger a "repack -a" rather than
> "repack -A". I don't know if it is worth making that behavior available
> through some more sane command line option (I would think people who
> really know that they want "repack -a" would just call it).

Well, actually this is a problem.

I think it is a good thing to deprecate gc --prune.  but if that means 
that repack -a is never used then unreferenced and expired objects will 
never be pruned if they're packed if one is always using 'git gc' as we 
are advocating.


Nicolas