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

From: Post, Mark K <mark.post@eds.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2006, 01:47 UTC
Message-ID: <5A14AF34CFF8AD44A44891F7C9FF410507E43006@usahm236.amer.corp.eds.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060717012154.GA27389@spearce.org>

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help. One reason is that this is a bare repository. When I ran the command, it aborted with "fatal: Not a git repository." Most likely because bare repositories don't have a .git directory in them.

Mark Post

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From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:22 PM
To: Post, Mark K
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff]

"Post, Mark K" <mark.post@eds.com> wrote:

> 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

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> 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.

Try running `git-prune-packed` after git-repack. git-repack doesn't delete the loose objects.

I don't remember git-repack ever doing it either.

-- 
Shawn.