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Re: git packing leaves unpacked files

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 26, 2006, 18:10 UTC
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Andy Whitcroft wrote:
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> I was just looking at my kernel repository and noticed that even after a
> git repack -a -d I have some loose files.  A quick look at repack
> doesn't seem to explain why some are either not packed or are kept unpacked.
> 
> Is this something I should be expecting?

Try git-fsck-objects. Perhaps those loose files are the ones which will be pruned.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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