Re: git gc ineffective

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