Re: git gc/prune runs again and again
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- 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.
-- Duy