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From: "Russ Dill" <russ.dill@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cleaning the .git directory with gc
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:09:40 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> I've recently started using git, and while experimenting with
>  git commit --amend, I noticed that git gc does not do what I
>  expected.  Example:

Thats a lot of work without first reading the man page:

       --prune
           Usually git-gc packs refs, expires old reflog entries, packs loose
           objects, and removes old rerere records. Removal of unreferenced
           loose objects is an unsafe operation while other git operations are
           in progress, so it is not done by default. Pass this option if you
           want it, and only when you know nobody else is creating new objects
           in the repository at the same time (e.g. never use this option in a
           cron script).