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git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff]

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PKPost, Mark K <mark.post@eds.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2006, 00:44 UTC
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I'm having a problem that just started occurring with git-repack not removing the files from $GIT_DIR/objects/*, and therefore not removing the directories, since they're not empty. The command I'm using (as the git user) is this: GIT_DIR=/home/git/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git git-repack -a -d -l

This used to work, but then suddenly stopped working. I ran an strace -f -F with this same command, and I don't see any attempt being made to unlink the files in $GIT_DIR/objects/*/, but I do see the rmdir commands failing because the directories are not empty. All of the files in those directories are owned by git:git.

I tried upgrading to git 1.4.1, but the same thing happens. The gzipped strace output is almost 5MB in size, certainly not appropriate to attach here. I can make it available from the system's web server if anyone wants to look at it.

Please let me know if there's any other information needed.
Mark Post
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