From: Дилян Палаузов Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:23:05 GMT Subject: Re: git pull & git gc Message-ID: <55098A49.1020003@aegee.org> In-Reply-To: Hello, # git gc --auto Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. and calls in the background: 25618 1 0 32451 884 1 14:20 ? 00:00:00 git gc --auto 25639 25618 51 49076 49428 0 14:20 ? 00:00:07 git prune --expire 2.weeks.ago # git count-objects -v count: 6039 size: 65464 in-pack: 185432 packs: 1 size-pack: 46687 prune-packable: 0 garbage: 0 size-garbage: 0 Regards Dilian On 18.03.2015 15:16, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Дилян Палаузов > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a local folder with the git-repository (so that its .git/config >> contains ([remote "origin"]\n url = git://github.com/git/git.git\nfetch = >> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* ) >> >> I do there "git pull". >> >> Usually the output is >> Already up to date >> >> but since today it prints >> Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. >> See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. >> Already up-to-date. >> >> and starts in the background a "git gc --auto" process. This is all fine, >> however, when the "git gc" process finishes, and I do again "git pull" I get >> the same message, as above (git gc is again started). > > So if you do "git gc --auto" now, does it exit immediately or go > through the garbage collection process again (it'll print something)? > What does "git count-objects -v" show? >