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Re: Funny error with git gc...

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 15, 2009, 18:10 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> if you need a chuckle, like me, you might appreciate this story: in one of 
> my repositories, "git gc" dies with
>
> 	unable to open object pack directory: ...: Too many open files
>
> turns out that there are a whopping 1088 packs in that repository...

Isn't it a more serious problem than a mere chuckle? How would one recover from such a situation (other than "mv .git/objects/pack-*; for p in pack-*.pack; do git unpack-objects <$p; done")?

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  3. Avery PennarunMay 15, 2009
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinMay 15, 2009
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  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinMay 23, 2009
  10. Linus TorvaldsMay 23, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinMay 24, 2009
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinMay 15, 2009
  14. Daniel BarkalowMay 15, 2009
  15. Matthias AndreeMay 18, 2009
  16. Cope better with a _lot_ of packsJohannes Schindelin, May 15, 2009
  17. Shawn O. PearceMay 15, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2009

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