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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago"
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Hi,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> In any case, after 90 days, my reading of the code is that these loose 
> ones become unreachable, and when we look at their timestamps, we notice 
> that they are already more than 2 weeks old, and they will immediately 
> be removed.

Yes.

In any case, most likely these objects would have been packed anyway 
during that period, so they would have been pruned by the repack called by 
git-gc.

My patch really, really is about _unreferenced_ loose objects, i.e. 
something you get by multiple "git add"s without commits.  And by merge 
conflicts.

IOW by objects that were never referenced by commit objects.

Ciao,
Dscho