Re: git is live

Samuel Bronson
2014-01-10T02:56:08Z

Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com> writes:

> Cary> (Maybe a > git gc will clean things up, too.)
>
> Pedro> That's my expectation.
>
> It will but you will have to clear the reflog first for best results.
> When doing the grafting stuff I did:
>
> git reflog expire --expire=now --all
> git gc --prune=now --aggressive
>
> --aggressive takes a lot of time though.

I don't think --aggressive does what you think it does. They tell me that
using "git repack" with some flags (or even no flags) is nearly always
preferable; see:

http://metalinguist.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-woes-of-git-gc-aggressive-and-how-git-deltas-work/

(But of course you would certainly still want pruning to happen, but "git
repack" can do that too; for example, try "git repack -a".)

Also, it might (or might not) do even better if you trimmed out the
"refs/original/" hierarchy you've got in there. (Which, admittedly, may not
have been there when you posted this.)