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		amelius on Dec 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations > Oh shit, I did something terribly wrong, please tell me git has a magic time machine!?! Shouldn't it be easy for Git to remove objects created after a given time, and then remove all objects that refer to those objects iteratively?

icebraining on Dec 18, 2017 [–]

I think that's exactly what it does; the default is two weeks: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc

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