From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:59:16 GMT Subject: Re: Large number of object files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Uri Moszkowicz wrote: > Continuing to work on improving clone times, using "git gc > --aggressive" has resulted in a large number of tags combining into a > single file but now I have a large number of files in the objects > directory - 131k for a ~2.7GB repository. Can you paste "git count-objects -v"? I'm curious why gc keeps so many loose objects around. > Any way to reduce the number of these files to speed up clones? An easy way to get rid of them is to clone the non-local way. Everything will be sent over a pack, the result would be a single pack in new repo. Try "git clone file:///path/to/source/repo new-repo". You can also try "git prune" on the existing repo (read its man page before use). -- Duy