From: Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Confused about `git gc`
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:18:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2E451B.3080600@ubicom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ljo14r61.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com> writes:
>
>
>> Looks like I didn't quite understand the actual role of `git gc`. I
>> just thought that `git gc` would remove all unreferenced objects
>> during the unpack-pack process. However, I'm not seeing the result
>> what I was expecting from `git gc`.
>>
>> I'm adding an object into the database, which is ignored by git. Then
>> I expect the object to be removed after `git gc`. But, it's still
>> there.
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> What am I overlooking?
>>
>
> You are probably overlooking the safety introduced to "git gc" to make
> it safer against concurrently run git operations, namely the fact that
> it would not remove new loose objects (it would remove loose objects
> only when they are old enough).
>
>
Hmm, I see.
git gc --prune=<date>
helped me remove all loose objects.
Thanks,
Yakup
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 8:28 Confused about `git gc` Yakup Akbay
2009-06-09 10:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-09 11:18 ` Yakup Akbay [this message]
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