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Big repo not shrinking on repack or gc?

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Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 14, 2015, 11:51 UTC
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Hi everybody,

I have a repo here that is 130G, but when I clone --mirror it, the result is only 25G big. Because of the --mirror I don't think that I missed any refs that keep objects only in the source repo.

I already tried 'git repack -fad' and 'git gc' to shrink the original repo, but it only shaved off 3G, and there are a lot of loose objects and old pack files that I simply don't expect to be there after a repack.

Shouldn't 'git gc' (even without --aggressive) or a 'repack -fad' remove those redundant objects and packs?

How to clean this up? (Additional problem: I don't have enough space to run a repack anymore.)

Andreas
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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