From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:01:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc/prune runs again and again
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DMyjaZ_jKz4B93e6gSgV7ensORqxD-WYOYL9=9SV5tLw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151103124420.GA10946@inner.h.apk.li>

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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