From: Post, Mark K Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:48:56 GMT Subject: RE: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff] 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 -----Original Message----- 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" 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 > 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.