Subject: Re: git gc ineffective

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:17:57 +0100

On Nov 09 2020, Michal Suchánek wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:17:38AM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> > On Nov 09 2020, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> > 
>> > > I noticed I am running out of disk space, and one repository taking up
>> > > about 38G. Did git gc --aggressive, and the used space *raised* to 42G,
>> > > and git would report it does gc after every commit.
>> > 
>> > Do you have a lot of loose objects?
>> { for i in  .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l
>> 53392
> And in the double-size repository it's doubled, too:
>  { for i in  .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l
>  101167

git count-objects also shows the size.

Does it help to prune them --exprire now?

Andreas.

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