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It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.
This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:
- most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer
paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
"refs/heads/").
- in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).
- In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-prune(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>] [--] [<head>...]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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NOTE: In most cases, users should run 'git gc', which calls
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'git prune'. See the section "NOTES", below.
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This runs 'git fsck --unreachable' using all the refs
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available in `refs/`, optionally with additional set of
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objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked
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objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database.
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In addition, it
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prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
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running 'git prune-packed'.
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Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain. If this is
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not desired, see linkgit:git-repack[1].
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OPTIONS
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-------
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-n::
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Do not remove anything; just report what it would
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remove.
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-v::
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Report all removed objects.
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\--::
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Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
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--expire <time>::
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Only expire loose objects older than <time>.
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<head>...::
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In addition to objects
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reachable from any of our references, keep objects
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reachable from listed <head>s.
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EXAMPLE
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-------
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To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that
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borrows from your repository via its
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`.git/objects/info/alternates`:
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------------
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$ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git rev-parse --all))
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------------
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Notes
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-----
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In most cases, users will not need to call 'git prune' directly, but
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should instead call 'git gc', which handles pruning along with
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many other housekeeping tasks.
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For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see
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'git fsck''s --unreachable option.
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkgit:git-fsck[1],
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linkgit:git-gc[1],
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linkgit:git-reflog[1]
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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