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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up files reported by size-garbage
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:36:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827173645.digsnbu3z4donzno@chatter.i7.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200827171954.GA3970312@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 01:19:54PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I think that git-gc will clean them up (via git-prune). It will also
> check that their mtimes are older than the expiration time, which avoids
> accidentally cleaning up the pack for an incoming fetch or push.
> 
> The default gc expiration time is 2 weeks, though, so you might want
> something like:
> 
>   git gc --prune=5.minutes.ago
> 
> if you're trying to get rid of them immediately. Likewise use git-prune
> directly if you don't want to incur the cost of a full gc/repack.

Oh, you're totally right. For some reason I was convinced that git-prune 
didn't touch them, but I stand corrected.

Thanks for the pointer!

-K

      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-27 15:55 Cleaning up files reported by size-garbage Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-08-27 17:19 ` Jeff King
2020-08-27 17:36   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]

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