Cleaning out unused blobs using git merge --squash followed by git gc?

Cleaning out unused blobs using git merge --squash followed by git gc?

References

Reference NO 1

http://schacon.github.io/git/user-manual.html

Reference NO 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904860/how-to-remove-unreferenced-blobs-from-my-git-repo

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https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.0.7/user-manual.html

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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf2/Changelog

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https://github.com/gdb/git

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http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=53129&start=75

Reference NO 7

http://cs.potsdam.edu/cgi-bin/man/manwhatis?1

Reference NO 8

http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/Git-JS-Changelog-126205.html