Re: git gc & deleted branches

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

quoted

[gc]
        reflogExpire = 0
        reflogExpireUnreachable = 0
        rerereresolved = 0
        rerereunresolved = 0
        packrefs = 1

git-gc uses a "safe" pruning mode, where it only prunes unreferenced
objects that are older than a certain period (this makes it safe to run
git-gc, even if other processes are creating objects at the same time).

So try

[gc]
       pruneExpire = now

Alternatively, you can just run 'git prune' manually instead of 'git
gc'.

Jeff, I tried it, but it has no effect (see below). There is only the master branch left, and only one commit therein, still it uses the space former occupied by the branch. I'm using git version 1.5.5.1.147.g867f.

Any further ideas?


$ git config -l
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
gc.reflogexpire=0
gc.reflogexpireunreachable=0
gc.rerereresolved=0
gc.rerereunresolved=0
gc.packrefs=1
gc.pruneexpire=now

$ git gc
Counting objects: 6, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Total 6 (delta 0), reused 6 (delta 0)

$ git prune

$ git branch
* master

$ du -s .
30820   .

$ git log
commit 9717437cdcb2a4457f28f41db5f6fad9ca55b54e
Author: Testuser [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu May 8 19:40:06 2008 +0200

    initial checkin

$ ls -l
total 10240
-rw-r--r-- 1 testuser users 10485760 May  8 19:40 file

Regards

Guido