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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: "git gc" doesn't seem to remove loose objects any more
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:38:37 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:07:39AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> There was an idea to have "git gc --prune" run "git prune"
> unconditionally, i.e. without grace period for dangling loose objects.
> 

That doesn't help that much, since (temporarily) you still need all of
the disk space for the exploded, unpacked objects.  As Brandon Casey
pointed out, the key is "git repack -a -d -l" vs "git repack -A -d
-l".  If there is going to be a git-gc option, it would need to change
the options sent to git-repack.  Or, I suppose the answer is to tell
people who run into this problem use a plumbing command, manually.
The question is how common is the use case of needing to gc a
repository like linux-next, I suppose.

							- Ted