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Re: ignoring extra bitmap file?

From
Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 28, 2017, 13:32 UTC
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<20170828133253.GA23438@inner.h.apk.li>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:53:34 +0000, Jeff King wrote: ...

> Whether there's a .bitmap doesn't impact whether .pack and .idx files
> are deleted. The next full repack would pack everything into a new big
> pack, and then delete any existing files, including .pack, .idx, and
> .bitmap.

It took a bit of patience, but the extra packs and .bitmaps finally went away without intervention.

However, now I have a few GB sitting in loose objects that refuse to vanish yet. Bryan might be interested here; how often is bitbucket 4.latest doing prune-objects (with auto-gc disabled)?

Andreas
-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
Previous: Jeff King
Message 3 of 3 in “ignoring extra bitmap file?”
  1. Andreas KreyAug 17, 2017
  2. Jeff KingAug 18, 2017
  3. Andreas KreyAug 28, 2017

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