Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> index 5223498..fa15104 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
> @@ -63,8 +63,11 @@ automatic consolidation of packs.
>  --prune=<date>::
>       Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago,
>       overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`).
> -     --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age.
> -     --prune is on by default.
> +     --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age (do
> +     not use --prune=all unless you know exactly what you are doing.
> +     Unless the repository is quiescent, you will lose newly created
> +     objects that haven't been anchored with the refs and end up
> +     corrupting your repository).  --prune is on by default.

Looks good to me. I think the same should be added to git-prune.txt
under --expire.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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