From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:07:32 GMT
Subject: Re: gc does not clean up after itself when not enough disk space
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In-Reply-To: <512CD703.4080302@gmail.com>

"jones.noamle" <lenoam@gmail.com> writes:

> # git gc
> Counting objects: 44626, done.
> Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
> Compressing objects: 100% (7756/7756), done.
> fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_uJ0E5b' write error: No
> space left on device

In general when we encounter an unexpected error, we tend to try
leaving things as they are so that we can help diagnosing the
failure. But when you ran out of disk space I would agree that it
may be sensible to remove a temporary file we didn't manage to write
out in full.