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Pygit2 Garbage collector method

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by checking pygit2's exposed repository-maintenance APIs and the underlying libgit2 support for garbage collection. Confirm whether pruning unused commits can be invoked through the bindings, then document or test the supported behavior and its limits.

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Description

Is there any way to execute a method like git gc --prune=now using pygit2?

It would come in very handy to be able to get rid of unused commits that are lying around using disk space.

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