Re: git gc & deleted branches

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:23:53PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

quoted

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

'-a' puts everything in a single pack and kills off old packs. Anything that
was unreachable is not repacked in the new pack.

'-A' does the same thing but it also repacks the unreachable objects that were
previously packed.

Ah, indeed. I hadn't looked closely at the -A behavior before. So yes,
we are never killing off prunable packed objects. Probably we could use
the same solution as "git prune --expire"; perhaps a
"--keep-unreachable=2.weeks.ago"?

-Peff