Re: git gc ineffective

From: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Nov 9, 2020, 10:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20201109104327.GX29778@kitsune.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20201109101738.GW29778@kitsune.suse.cz>

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:17:38AM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > 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

And in the double-size repository it's doubled, too:
 { for i in  .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l
 101167