Recommend to reduce gc.reflogExpire in hopes to reduce footprint on storage

[yarikoptic]

I am yet to see if it has effect "automagically" or we should force some "gc" invocation

We got to GBs of used storage and triggered quota limits on one HPC

[yarikoptic]

FWIW here is somewhat of a demo

$> git gc --prune=now
Counting objects: 2236, done.
Delta compression using up to 32 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (795/795), done.
Writing objects: 100% (2236/2236), done.
Total 2236 (delta 1421), reused 2236 (delta 1421)
(git)/net/vast-storage/scratch/vast/gablab/yhalchen/jobs:[result-openmind7-1037]
#43 !1034 [0].....................................:Tue Mar 07 16:48:16:.
yhalchen@openmind7:/om2/user/yhalchen/jobs
$> du -scm .
1204    .
1204    total
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#44 !1035 [0].....................................:Tue Mar 07 16:48:21:.
yhalchen@openmind7:/om2/user/yhalchen/jobs
$> git config gc.reflogExpire 10
(git)/net/vast-storage/scratch/vast/gablab/yhalchen/jobs:[result-openmind7-1037]
#45 !1036 [0].....................................:Tue Mar 07 16:48:29:.
yhalchen@openmind7:/om2/user/yhalchen/jobs
*$> git reflog expire
(git)/net/vast-storage/scratch/vast/gablab/yhalchen/jobs:[result-openmind7-1037]
#46 !1037 [0].....................................:Tue Mar 07 16:48:44:.
yhalchen@openmind7:/om2/user/yhalchen/jobs
$> git gc --prune=now
Counting objects: 2076, done.
Delta compression using up to 32 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (719/719), done.
Writing objects: 100% (2076/2076), done.
Total 2076 (delta 1339), reused 2071 (delta 1337)
(git)/net/vast-storage/scratch/vast/gablab/yhalchen/jobs:[result-openmind7-1037]
#47 !1038 [0].....................................:Tue Mar 07 16:48:49:.
yhalchen@openmind7:/om2/user/yhalchen/jobs
$> du -scm .
48      .
48      total

[yarikoptic]

we are staying at 48M there, so I guess it is working. Lets proceed