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SubjectRe: size of git repository (was Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)
On 18-11-07 15:35, James Bottomley wrote:

>> clean-cg? But failure to run "git repack -a -d" every once in a while?
>
> Actually, the best command is
>
> git gc
>
> which does a repack (into a single pack file rather than an incremenal),
> and then removes all the objects now in the pack. If, like me, you work
> on temporary branches which you keep rebasing, you can add a --prune to
> gc which will erase all unreferenced objects as it packs (use this one
> with care. I usually never use it but run a git prune -n just to see
> what would be removed, and then run git prune separately if it looks OK).

Thanks for the comment. That managed to indeed shave a few extra bytes off
my already "repack -a -d" packed repo still.

Rene.

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