Re: git gc & deleted branches

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

quoted

According to that commit message, prune is now a no-op. However, it
looks like it is still used for trigger a "repack -a" rather than
"repack -A". I don't know if it is worth making that behavior available

Well, actually this is a problem.

I think it is a good thing to deprecate gc --prune.  but if that means 
that repack -a is never used then unreferenced and expired objects will 
never be pruned if they're packed if one is always using 'git gc' as we 
are advocating.

I thought that -A would eventually put them all into a single pack,
killing off the old packs.

-Peff