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| author |  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2019-04-07 21:52:16 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-04-08 17:01:09 +0900 |
| commit | daecbf2261f595935c999a00a1f9bc433df80e2c (patch) | |
| tree | b7ab24622b02c352cc6fa618c7f16a0e97d73d76 /t/t9102-git-svn-deep-rmdir.sh | |
| parent | gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-daecbf2261f595935c999a00a1f9bc433df80e2c.tar.xz | |
gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).
I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.
It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.
So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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