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the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger
the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See
the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for
-more details. This defaults to 10.
+more details. This defaults to 250.
The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old
the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The
particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set
of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote
tracking branches, refs saved by 'git-filter-branch' in
-refs/original/, or reflogs (which may references commits in branches
+refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches
that were later amended or rewound).
If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check