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Re: Safe way to remove .temp objects?

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Jan 26, 2006, 11:18 UTC
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<43D8AFF1.2080106@op5.se>
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Erik Mouw wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> After a git repack, git count-objects reports there are still 20
> objects in the repository. It looks like those are temp objects:
> 
>   erik@arthur:~/git/linux-2.6 > ls .git/objects/??/
>   .git/objects/14/:
>   d6545767f5103b5ef4702bc8fffa18dbe32ce1.temp
> 
>   .git/objects/1a/:
>   d37b580be4215f1b0927b7560f5e8b8d1bc0fa.temp
> 
>   [...]
> 
> Is there a git command to remove those objects in a safe way, or can I
> just rm them without "harming" git??
> 
> 
	$ git prune-packed
When you repack, you can run
	$ git repack -d
to remove loose objects when you're done packing.
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