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You are wrong about the semantics of git-gc. It will consider for garbage collection all objects that are not referenced, and a reference is everything under re

by avar 8y ago

You are wrong about the semantics of git-gc. It will consider for garbage collection all objects that are not referenced, and a reference is everything under refs/*, in addition to the other things you mentioned (index, reflogs etc.).

snuxoll 8y ago
The documentation on the man page does not make that clear, if explicitly calls out specific ref types - so that makes more sense.