Re: Blobs not referenced by file (anymore) are not removed by GC
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Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
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- Dec 8, 2014, 16:47 UTC
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Hi Martin, I'm the developer of the BFG - I'd guess that there probably isn't a bug for Git developers here, so you might want to open one or more issues at https://github.com/rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner/issues, where I'd be happy to take a look.
best regards, Roberto
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> On 8 Dec 2014 16:35, "Martin Scherer" <m.scherer@fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> after using BFG on a repo given certain directory globs, all of those >> files(names) are gone from history, but can not be collected by garbage >> collection anymore. So the blobs of the underlying files are not deleted >> and only the file names are not associated with the blob anymore. I >> wonder, if I discovered a bug (at least in bfg). But I expect git to >> discover that this blobs are not used in any way (so they have to >> associated to something right?) >> >> # invoke bfg --delete-folders something multiple times with different >> pattern. >> >> # try to cleanup >> >> git gc --aggressive --prune=now # big blobs still in history >> git fsck # no results >> git fsck --full --unreachable --dangling # no results >> >> to verify if the blobs are still there, see the output of >> >> git gc && git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx | egrep "^\w+ >> blob\W+[0-9]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+$" | sort -k 3 -n -r > bigobjects >> .txt >> >> head bigobjects.txt # outputs 9451427d7335395779b91864418630d2f0af780a >> blob 7895212 1869047 7657491 >> >> >> Also if bfg is being told to remove the biggest blob (bfg -B 1) with >> no-blob-protection, it does not succeed in removing it. >> >> --- output of bfg -B 1 >> >> Found 1 blob ids for large blobs - biggest=7895212 smallest=7895212 >> .... >> >> BFG aborting: No refs to update - no dirty commits found?? >> --- >> >> The repo can be found here. >> >> https://github.com/marscher/stallone_stale_objects >> >> I will restart all over to cleanup the history, but I guess this might >> be interesting for git developers. >> >> >> Best, >> Martin >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html