Re: "git gc" doesn't seem to remove loose objects any more

Theodore Tso wrote:

I've
often wished for a --yes-I-know-what-I-am-doing-and-it's-unsafe-but-
just-drop-the-unreachable-objects-cause-this-is-just-a-tracking-repository
option to "git gc".

repack -a -d -l

Notice the lowercase 'a'.

git-gc calls repack with uppercase 'A' which is what causes the unreachable
objects to be unpacked. Little 'a', is for people who know what they are
doing, and want git to just drop unreachable objects.

-brandon