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

From: Post, Mark K <mark.post@eds.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2006, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <5A14AF34CFF8AD44A44891F7C9FF410507E43009@usahm236.amer.corp.eds.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060717015149.GB27389@spearce.org>

That doesn't generate any error messages, but it also doesn't clean up the files in the object directory.

Mark Post

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From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:52 PM
To: Post, Mark K
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff]

So try:

  GIT_DIR=/home/git/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git git-prune-packed

On a bare repository you should always set the GIT_DIR environment variable to the directory of the repository before running the command.

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

> 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

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> 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" <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

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> > 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

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> > -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.