From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:31:08 GMT
Subject: Re: gc does not clean up after itself when not enough disk space
Message-ID: <512D1B8C.9070506@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1uc3njnf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 26.02.2013 17:07, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> "jones.noamle" <lenoam@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> # git gc
>> Counting objects: 44626, done.
>> Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (7756/7756), done.
>> fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_uJ0E5b' write error: No
>> space left on device
> 
> In general when we encounter an unexpected error, we tend to try
> leaving things as they are so that we can help diagnosing the
> failure. But when you ran out of disk space I would agree that it
> may be sensible to remove a temporary file we didn't manage to write
> out in full.

Ack. I just recently had to do

   git gc || rm -f .git/objects/*/tmp_*

as workaround in the nightly housekeeping script on our CI server.