Re: Funny error with git gc...

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2009, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130905151124l40194e3eq78411c5b94bd9598@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmy9etey8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> if you need a chuckle, like me, you might appreciate this story: in one of
>> my repositories, "git gc" dies with
>>
>>       unable to open object pack directory: ...: Too many open files
>>
>> turns out that there are a whopping 1088 packs in that repository...
>
> Isn't it a more serious problem than a mere chuckle?  How would one
> recover from such a situation (other than "mv .git/objects/pack-*;
> for p in pack-*.pack; do git unpack-objects <$p; done")?

I guess if you have root access, you could increase your file ulimit (-n) temporarily and then repack. Of course that's not actually addressing the root cause of the problem.

Avery