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From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: "There are too many unreachable loose objects" - why don't we run 'git prune' automatically?
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:45:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C2F2EA2-0C59-4EA2-8C8E-10228FB82D90@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I recently ran into "There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 
'git prune' to remove them." after a "Auto packing the repository in 
background for optimum performance." message.

This was introduced with a087cc9 "git-gc --auto: protect ourselves from 
accumulated cruft" but I don't understand the commit message really.

Why don't we call 'git prune' automatically? I though Git would prune
unreachable objects after 90 days by default anyways. Is the warning 
about unreachable objects that are not yet 90 days old?

Thanks,
Lars

             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-08 12:45 Lars Schneider [this message]
2017-06-09  5:27 ` "There are too many unreachable loose objects" - why don't we run 'git prune' automatically? Jeff King
2017-06-09 12:03   ` Lars Schneider
2017-06-10  8:06     ` Jeff King
2017-06-18 13:22       ` Lars Schneider
2017-06-20 14:08         ` Jeff King

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