Re: Forcing git to pack objects

From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2015, 02:25 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3Tzx29A+ZuOhXcxZThwZ98WmKC4aiwX32T=KA-7PTqs7g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi!
>
> Recently I was running manually a git gc --prune command (wanted to
> shrink my 2.8G .git directory by getting rid of loose objects) and I
> ended up running out of space on my HD. After freaking out a little
> bit (didn't know if the repo would end up in a 'stable' state), I
> ended up freeing up some space and I again have a working repo...
> _but_ I noticed that basically _all_ objects on my repo are laying
> around in directories .git/objects/00 to ff (and taking a whole lot of
> space... like the .git directory is now like 5 GBs). After running git
> gc manually again it ended up taking a lot of time and the objects are
> still there. Also git svn sometimes gcs after fetching and it took to
> run cause of the gc execution (ended up killing it) and the files are
> still there. Is it possible to ask git to put all those objects in
> .pack files? Or did I mess something on my repo?
>
> Just in case, that's a repo I use at work that's working on a windows
> box (git for windows 2.6.3).
>
> Thanks in advance.

git repack -d should do it.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson