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git gc/prune runs again and again

From
Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 3, 2015, 12:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20151103124420.GA10946@inner.h.apk.li>
Hi all,

I have a bit of an annoying behaviour in git gc; there is a repo I regularly do a fetch in, and this kicks off a gc/prune every time. I remember there being a heuristic with being that many files in .git/objects/17 as the gc trigger.

Which is unfortunate if the gc does not actually reduce the number of files there because they aren't old enough => gc comes right back.

What can I do there? (This git is a bit old, 2.2.2)
Andreas
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