Re: There are too many unreachable loose objects

From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2017, 11:10 UTC
Message-ID: <3C13D221-1F42-4012-914E-53634DD5BC79@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170609053643.k2skjxf55xtjty2q@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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> On 09 Jun 2017, at 07:36, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:52:42PM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:
> 
>>>> It may be that it's the server side that needs to git-prune, and not
>>>> your local side? I'm not really certain but you're doing a push which
>>>> talks to a remote server.
>>> 
>>> Yes, certainly the position in the output implies that. These days you
>>> should see:
>>> 
>>> remote: warning: There are too many...
>>> 
>>> to make it more clear. Perhaps the server is too old to have 860a2ebec
>>> (receive-pack: send auto-gc output over sideband 2, 2016-06-05).
>> 
>> Do you know if GHE 2.9.4 has this fix? (Is it OK to ask this here?)
>> Context: http://public-inbox.org/git/9C2F2EA2-0C59-4EA2-8C8E-10228FB82D90@gmail.com/
> 
> It's probably not the best place to ask, as I don't think there is an
> easy way to find the answer unless you have the GHE source code. But the
> answer is no, it's in GHE 2.10.0.

OK!

> Actually, I guess you could run "git version" on the GHE box; the
> version numbers show the latest version of upstream Git that has been
> merged. This particular commit is in Git v2.10.0 (coincidental to the
> GHE version above; the versions are totally independent).

Thanks for the `git version` tip :-)

- Lars