From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:10:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Funny error with git gc...
Message-ID: <7vmy9etey8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905152000520.4449@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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")?