Re: git help prune accuracy?

Martin Fick [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  objects from the object database. In addition, it
prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs
by running git prune-packed.

The last sentence seems like it should maybe have the
following fix:

s/it prunes the unpacked/it prunes the unreferenced/

Ack, I meant:

s/it prunes the unpacked/it prunes the unreachable/

"In addition" part is about objects that exist in loose format that are
also found in packs and has nothing to do with reachability.

Running "git pack-objects" to collect loose objects into a new pack will
not remove these loose objects that are copied into that new pack. Because
we try to access objects from an already open packfile before trying a
loose object file, removing these now-redundant loose ones after they are
packed makes sense. And that is what "git prune-packed" does.