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<h1>
git-prune(1) Manual Page
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<h2>NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>git-prune -
   Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
</p>
</div>
</div>
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p><em>git prune</em> [-n] [-v] [--expire &lt;expire&gt;] [--] [&lt;head&gt;&#8230;]</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="admonitionblock">
<table><tr>
<td class="icon">
<div class="title">Note</div>
</td>
<td class="content">In most cases, users should run <em>git gc</em>, which calls
<em>git prune</em>. See the section "NOTES", below.</td>
</tr></table>
</div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This runs <em>git fsck --unreachable</em> using all the refs
available in <tt>refs/</tt>, optionally with additional set of
objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked
objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database.
In addition, it
prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
running <em>git prune-packed</em>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain.  If this is
not desired, see <a href="git-repack.html">git-repack(1)</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-n
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--dry-run
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Do not remove anything; just report what it would
        remove.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-v
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--verbose
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Report all removed objects.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--expire &lt;time&gt;
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Only expire loose objects older than &lt;time&gt;.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
&lt;head&gt;&#8230;
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        In addition to objects
        reachable from any of our references, keep objects
        reachable from listed &lt;head&gt;s.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_example">EXAMPLE</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that
borrows from your repository via its
<tt>.git/objects/info/alternates</tt>:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>$ git prune $(cd ../another &amp;&amp; $(git rev-parse --all))</tt></pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_notes">Notes</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>In most cases, users will not need to call <em>git prune</em> directly, but
should instead call <em>git gc</em>, which handles pruning along with
many other housekeeping tasks.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see
<em>git fsck</em>'s --unreachable option.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-fsck.html">git-fsck(1)</a>,
<a href="git-gc.html">git-gc(1)</a>,
<a href="git-reflog.html">git-reflog(1)</a></p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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<div id="footer-text">
Last updated 2011-04-19 22:26:58 UTC
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