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