Documentation/git-prune.txt

   1 git-prune(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-prune' [-n] [--expire <expire>] [--] [<head>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15
  16 This runs `git-fsck --unreachable` using all the refs
  17 available in `$GIT_DIR/refs`, optionally with additional set of
  18 objects specified on the command line, and prunes all
  19 objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database.
  20 In addition, it
  21 prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
  22 running `git prune-packed`.
  23
  24 OPTIONS
  25 -------
  26
  27 -n::
  28         Do not remove anything; just report what it would
  29         remove.
  30
  31 \--::
  32         Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
  33
  34 \--expire <time>::
  35         Only expire loose objects older than <time>.
  36
  37 <head>...::
  38         In addition to objects
  39         reachable from any of our references, keep objects
  40         reachable from listed <head>s.
  41
  42 EXAMPLE
  43 -------
  44
  45 To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that
  46 borrows from your repository via its
  47 `.git/objects/info/alternates`:
  48
  49 ------------
  50 $ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git-rev-parse --all))
  51 ------------
  52
  53 Author
  54 ------
  55 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  56
  57 Documentation
  58 --------------
  59 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  60
  61 GIT
  62 ---
  63 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite