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Re: git gc ineffective

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Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date
Nov 9, 2020, 10:17 UTC
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> On Nov 09 2020, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> 
> > I noticed I am running out of disk space, and one repository taking up
> > about 38G. Did git gc --aggressive, and the used space *raised* to 42G,
> > and git would report it does gc after every commit.
> 
> Do you have a lot of loose objects?

{ for i in .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l 53392

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> Andreas.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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> "And now for something completely different."
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  3. Michal SuchánekNov 9, 2020
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  6. Andreas SchwabNov 9, 2020
  7. Michal SuchánekJan 7, 2021
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