From: Post, Mark K <mark.post@eds.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:44:52 GMT
Subject: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff]
Message-ID: <5A14AF34CFF8AD44A44891F7C9FF410507E43005@usahm236.amer.corp.eds.com>

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