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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-04-30 08:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-04-30 08:45:27 +0000 |
| commit | 7d575a5e95514414281eb8f7d33d12c1b396edd2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e90272279f86a84a2555173a04bb793de6145d9 /git-prune.txt | |
| parent | 9ab876720cbaa7bef5a4fd4e8b831d52e5b5cf04 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-7d575a5e95514414281eb8f7d33d12c1b396edd2.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-prune.txt b/git-prune.txt index f151cff5d..f92bb8cfa 100644 --- a/git-prune.txt +++ b/git-prune.txt @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- +NOTE: In most cases, users should run linkgit:git-gc[1], which calls +git-prune. See the section "NOTES", below. + This runs `git-fsck --unreachable` using all the refs available in `$GIT_DIR/refs`, optionally with additional set of objects specified on the command line, and prunes all @@ -50,6 +53,23 @@ borrows from your repository via its $ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git-rev-parse --all)) ------------ +Notes +----- + +In most cases, users will not need to call git-prune directly, but +should instead call linkgit:git-gc[1], which handles pruning along with +many other housekeeping tasks. + +For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see +git-fsck's --unreachable option. + +See Also +-------- + +linkgit:git-fsck[1], +linkgit:git-gc[1], +linkgit:git-reflog[1] + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |