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Subject: Re: "git gc" doesn't seem to remove loose objects any more
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In-Reply-To: <237967ef0812150538n671c22b8gaf7a7b5dcaf68433@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Magnusson's message of "Mon\, 15 Dec 2008 14\:38\:56 +0100")
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"Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com> writes:

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> IIRC git gc only removes loose objects older than two weeks, if you
> really want to remove them now, run git prune. But make sure no other
> git process can be active when you run it, or it could possibly step
> on something.

OK, that makes sense.  Obviously I misunderstood this.  That doesn't
explain why the number of objects might increase after "git gc", but
perhaps that's for a good reason too.

Surely "git gui"'s warning is unhelpful, then: it warns I have more
than 2000 loose objects (in another checkout), offers to compress my
database, and I end up with an unchanged repository (which it still
complains about)?  Is this warning just redundant now that we've got
"git gc --auto"?