Re: git pull & git gc

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2015, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C9RF-PoJNs4PTOg_A0O=RVxZQRDp_UGxtJ_vQ-7h-L3A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150318145815.GN1369@serenity.lan>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:58 PM, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:41:59PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If not, I made some mistake in analyzing this and we'll start again.
>>
>> I did make one mistake, the first "gc" should have reduced the number
>> of loose objects to zero. Why didn't it.?  I'll come back to this
>> tomorrow if nobody finds out first :)
>
> Most likely they are not referenced by anything but are younger than 2
> weeks.
>
> I saw a similar issue with automatic gc triggering after every operation
> when I did something equivalent to:
>
>         git add <lots of files>
>         git commit
>         git reset --hard HEAD^
>
> which creates a log of unreachable objects which are not old enough to
> be pruned.

And there's another problem caused by background gc. If it's not run in background, it should print this

warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them.

but because background gc does not have access to stdout/stderr anymore, this is lost.

-- 
Duy