From: Post, Mark K Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:47:37 GMT Subject: RE: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff] 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 -----Original Message----- 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" 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 > 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.