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Thanks. And a nice use of pushd/popd and find.

2010-04-14T19:08:09.856-07:00

Thanks. And a nice use of pushd/popd and find.

That's a great tip Jakub

I still slightly p...

2008-06-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

That's a great tip Jakub

I still slightly prefer the "pushd" operation, because pushd and popd will output the directory stack upon execution, which makes it a little more verbose.

I also know you can pass the -exec parameter to find and substitute in a parameter there. But, for some reason, the while loop is so much more legible to me than:

find . -type d -name .git -exec git --git-dir={} gc --prune \;

Instead of 'pushd "$dir"; git gc --prune; popd;' y...

2008-06-13T06:33:00.000-07:00

Instead of 'pushd "$dir"; git gc --prune; popd;' you can simply use 'git --git-dir="$dir" gc --prune;'

Current version of git has "git gc --auto", which ...

2008-06-13T06:29:00.000-07:00

Current version of git has "git gc --auto", which is invoked by some git commands, but by default it expires (removes) only 'old garbage'.

Comments on Tim, the Enchanter: Garbage collect every git repository on your machi...

Thanks. And a nice use of pushd/popd and find.

That's a great tip JakubI still slightly p...

Instead of 'pushd "$dir"; git gc --prune; popd;' y...

Current version of git has "git gc --auto", which ...

That's a great tip Jakub

I still slightly p...