From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:51:30 GMT
Subject: Big repo not shrinking on repack or gc?
Message-ID: <20150114115130.GA5677@inner.h.apk.li>

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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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800