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Lots of loose objects

From
David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date
Oct 10, 2007, 19:13 UTC
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<87myuqwzp3.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

I hade a tree that made git-gui complain that I had too many loose objects every time I started it (3072 to be precise). Letting git-gui compress it for me didn't help. Neither did git-gc, even with the --aggressive flag.

I noticed that I had a lot of loose files in .git/objects, and suddenly I remembered that there was a command called "git prune". Finally I was able to get rid of those loose objects.

The problem here is probably mostly that I couldn't get any help from git-gui or git-gc. git-gui claimed it would fix the problem for me, but failed. git-gc didn't mention that it left a bunch of files untouched.

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David Kågedal
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