From 58949bb18a1610d109e64e997c41696e0dfe97c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Frey Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 19:22:18 -0400 Subject: Documentation/git-prune.txt: document unpacked logic Clarifies the git-prune man page, documenting that it only prunes unpacked objects. Signed-off-by: Chris Frey Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index f92bb8c..3178bc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -18,12 +18,15 @@ 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 +objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database. In addition, it prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by running `git prune-packed`. +Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain. If this is +not desired, see linkgit:git-repack[1]. + OPTIONS ------- -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6