Stefan Sperling:

> By default, gotadmin cl keeps loose objects if their modification time
> lies within 10 minutes before the youngest reference in the repository
> was created. This is the "implementation-defined modification timestamp"
> mentioned in the man page.
> Depending on how you prepared your test repository a lot of objects
> could have a timestamp within this window.

I see.

Yes, that works out as expected:

$ apply gotadmin info 'pack -a' 'cl -a' info
repository: /usr/obj/test1.git
pack files: 0
loose objects: 2077090
loose total size: 6.9G
packing 2 references; 2077090 objects; deltify: 100%; writing pack:    2.5G 100%
Wrote 4af24944f7cce82e0131fdd19ae21d0a3f30a0a2.pack
   2.5G packed; indexing 100%; resolving deltas 100%
Indexed 4af24944f7cce82e0131fdd19ae21d0a3f30a0a2.pack
2077090 loose objects; 218189 commits scanned; 2077090 objects purged
loose total size before: 6.9G
loose total size after: 0B
disk space freed: 6.9G
loose objects also found in pack files: 2077090
repository: /usr/obj/test1.git
pack files: 1
packed objects: 2077090
packed total size: 2.5G
loose objects: 0

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de