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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>