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307<title>git-prune(1)</title>
308</head>
309<body>
310<div id="header">
311<h1>
312git-prune(1) Manual Page
313</h1>
314<h2>NAME</h2>
315<div class="sectionbody">
316<p>git-prune -
Junio C Hamano4ec06712007-06-09 20:39:33[diff] [blame]317 Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]318</p>
319</div>
320</div>
321<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
322<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]323<div class="para"><p><em>git-prune</em> [-n] [--expire &lt;expire&gt;] [--] [&lt;head&gt;&#8230;]</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]324</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]325<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]326<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]327<div class="admonitionblock">
328<table><tr>
329<td class="icon">
330<div class="title">Note</div>
331</td>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]332<td class="content">In most cases, users should run <em>git-gc</em>, which calls
333<em>git-prune</em>. See the section "NOTES", below.</td>
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]334</tr></table>
335</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]336<div class="para"><p>This runs <em>git-fsck --unreachable</em> using all the refs
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]337available in <tt>$GIT_DIR/refs</tt>, optionally with additional set of
Junio C Hamano229a72f2008-05-16 00:47:56[diff] [blame]338objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]339objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database.
340In addition, it
341prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]342running <em>git-prune-packed</em>.</p></div>
343<div class="para"><p>Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain. If this is
344not desired, see <a href="git-repack.html">git-repack(1)</a>.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]345</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]346<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]347<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]348<div class="vlist"><dl>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]349<dt>
350-n
351</dt>
352<dd>
353<p>
354 Do not remove anything; just report what it would
355 remove.
356</p>
357</dd>
358<dt>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]359--
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]360</dt>
361<dd>
362<p>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]363 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
364</p>
365</dd>
366<dt>
Junio C Hamano0c999702007-12-03 09:57:55[diff] [blame]367--expire &lt;time&gt;
368</dt>
369<dd>
370<p>
371 Only expire loose objects older than &lt;time&gt;.
372</p>
373</dd>
374<dt>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]375&lt;head&gt;&#8230;
376</dt>
377<dd>
378<p>
379 In addition to objects
380 reachable from any of our references, keep objects
381 reachable from listed &lt;head&gt;s.
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]382</p>
383</dd>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]384</dl></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]385</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]386<h2 id="_example">EXAMPLE</h2>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]387<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]388<div class="para"><p>To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]389borrows from your repository via its
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]390<tt>.git/objects/info/alternates</tt>:</p></div>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]391<div class="listingblock">
392<div class="content">
Junio C Hamanofce7c7e2008-07-02 03:06:38[diff] [blame]393<pre><tt>$ git prune $(cd ../another &amp;&amp; $(git rev-parse --all))</tt></pre>
Junio C Hamanof65d9282007-01-22 09:00:13[diff] [blame]394</div></div>
395</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]396<h2 id="_notes">Notes</h2>
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]397<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]398<div class="para"><p>In most cases, users will not need to call <em>git-prune</em> directly, but
399should instead call <em>git-gc</em>, which handles pruning along with
400many other housekeeping tasks.</p></div>
401<div class="para"><p>For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see
402<em>git-fsck</em>'s --unreachable option.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]403</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]404<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]405<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]406<div class="para"><p><a href="git-fsck.html">git-fsck(1)</a>,
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]407<a href="git-gc.html">git-gc(1)</a>,
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]408<a href="git-reflog.html">git-reflog(1)</a></p></div>
Junio C Hamano7d575a52008-04-30 08:45:27[diff] [blame]409</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]410<h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]411<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]412<div class="para"><p>Written by Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]413</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]414<h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]415<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]416<div class="para"><p>Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]417</div>
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]418<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]419<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamanoba4b9282008-07-06 05:20:31[diff] [blame]420<div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]421</div>
422<div id="footer">
423<div id="footer-text">
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