Keep-around orphaned reference Rake task

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• Offering: GitLab Self-Managed

Version history

• Improvements to Rake task introduced in GitLab 18.4.

gitlab:keep_around:orphaned generates a CSV report of every keep-around reference in the project repository and every database reference to a Git commit.

The CSV report has three columns:

• The type of reference. Either keep for a keep-around reference or usage for a database reference.
• The Git commit ID.
• The source of the reference if known. For example, Pipeline.

Run orphaned reference report

Linux package (Omnibus)

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:keep_around:orphaned PROJECT_PATH=project/path FILENAME=/tmp/report.csv

Self-compiled (source)

bundle exec rake gitlab:keep_around:orphaned RAILS_ENV=production PROJECT_PATH=project/path FILENAME=/tmp/report.csv