Re: How do I regularly clean up .git/objects/pack/tmp_* files?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 4, 2017, 05:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20170604051740.gnkrjv35udgipg42@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAD03jn5CEwZ0H+UKO4yW3PoL+XPXcwUGnehhv-KyBYQCYzAXGQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 04:53:20PM -0400, Dun Peal wrote:

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> I try to follow the best practice of regular repo maintenance, which
> afaik consists of running `git gc` every week or so.
> 
> So I thought I had a well-maintained repository, and was quite
> surprised to discover some very large .git/objects/pack/tmp_* files,
> which apparently are entirely needless and should be cleaned up, but
> `git gc` doesn't clean them.
> 
> Is there another command I should regularly run, instead or in
> addition to `git gc`, to keep my repo well-maintained, and
> specifically, to remove such unnecessary files from my .git directory?

They're kept with the same time-based grace period that is used for unreachable objects, which defaults to the rather conservative "2 weeks". Try "git gc --prune=1.hour.ago".

-Peff