REPO(1)

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version 2.69 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is repo — specifically repo gc, and yes bestie this is your manual page for it 💖 welcome to the Repo Manual, pull up a chair, we're cleaning house 🧹✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

repo gc

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. no flags required, no arguments, just you and the garbage collector 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Summary

Cleaning up internal repo and Git state. 🧼✨

basically it's the "bestie we need to talk about your storage" command. it goes in and tidies up the internal repo + Git situation. lowkey iconic behavior, no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips (exits). your little orientation tour 🫶
  • -n, --dry-run — does literally everything except actually deleting anything. it's the "window shopping" mode, the rehearsal, the dress rehearsal if you will 😭
  • -y, --yes — answers yes to all the safe prompts automatically. no more tapping y like it's a rhythm game 🎀
  • --repack — repacks all projects that use partial clone with filter=blob:none. yes that's the exact filter, don't @ me, it's real 🔥
  • --keep-manifest-projects — keeps the Git data for projects that are still in the manifests. the "don't throw away my stuff that's still on the syllabus" flag 📚

🍓 Logging options

  • -v, --verbose — show all the output. every last crumb of it. main character narration energy 👑
  • -q, --quiet — only show errors. silent treatment, but make it productive 💀

🧚 Multi-manifest options

  • --outer-manifest — operate starting at the outermost manifest. go big, start from the outside 🌈
  • --no-outer-manifest — do not operate on outer manifests. minding your business, respectfully 🙈
  • --this-manifest-only — only operate on this (sub)manifest. just this one, bestie, nobody else 🎀
  • --no-this-manifest-only, --all-manifests — operate on this manifest and its submanifests. the whole friend group, everybody's invited 🫶
Run repo help gc to view the detailed manual. (fr fr, if you want the deep lore, that's where it lives)

🔥 DETAILS 🔥

The repo gc command removes internal Git data for projects that are no longer active in the current configuration. it's giving "spring cleaning but for your repos" 🧹💖

Projects excluded by the configured manifest groups are inactive by default. so if you ghosted them via groups, they're on the chopping block by default. periodt.

Use --keep-manifest-projects to keep Git data for projects that are still in the manifests. so if you want to protect the ones still on the roster, that's your flag, bestie 🛡️✨

and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 — this was repo gc, from the Repo Manual, dated September 2026, and it's REPO(1) iykyk 🦋⭐

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