# Lots of loose objects

2 messages from 2007-10-10 to 2007-10-10. Participants: David Kågedal, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10236

## David Kågedal, 2007-10-10 19:13

Subject: Lots of loose objects
Message-ID: <87myuqwzp3.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87myuqwzp3.fsf%40lysator.liu.se

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I hade a tree that made git-gui complain that I had too many loose
objects every time I started it (3072 to be precise).  Letting git-gui
compress it for me didn't help.  Neither did git-gc, even with the
--aggressive flag.

I noticed that I had a lot of loose files in .git/objects, and
suddenly I remembered that there was a command called "git
prune". Finally I was able to get rid of those loose objects.

The problem here is probably mostly that I couldn't get any help from
git-gui or git-gc.  git-gui claimed it would fix the problem for me,
but failed.  git-gc didn't mention that it left a bunch of files
untouched.

-- 
David Kågedal

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-10-10 19:37

Subject: Re: Lots of loose objects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102035420.4174@racer.site>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102035420.4174%40racer.site
In-Reply-To: <87myuqwzp3.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

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Hi,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Kågedal wrote:

> I hade a tree that made git-gui complain that I had too many loose
> objects every time I started it (3072 to be precise).  Letting git-gui
> compress it for me didn't help.  Neither did git-gc, even with the
> --aggressive flag.
> 
> I noticed that I had a lot of loose files in .git/objects, and
> suddenly I remembered that there was a command called "git
> prune". Finally I was able to get rid of those loose objects.

Probably git-gui should check again, after the compacting stage, how many 
loose objects there are, and suggest to run git prune after a sufficiently 
terrifying warning message ("Should I prune unreferenced objects?  (DON'T 
do this if you share objects between repositories!) Yes / No").

Ciao,
Dscho

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