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Re: git gc/prune runs again and again

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2015, 15:01 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a bit of an annoying behaviour in git gc;
> there is a repo I regularly do a fetch in, and
> this kicks off a gc/prune every time. I remember
> there being a heuristic with being that many files
> in .git/objects/17 as the gc trigger.
>
> Which is unfortunate if the gc does not actually
> reduce the number of files there because they
> aren't old enough => gc comes right back.
>
> What can I do there? (This git is a bit old, 2.2.2)

Run "git prune". 2.2.2 hides this suggestion to run git-prune in this case. The next git version will show it back.

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Duy
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