# Multiple pack files in .git/objects/pack

1 messages from 2005-08-26 to 2005-08-26. Participants: Martin Langhoff.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1655

## Martin Langhoff, 2005-08-26 09:25

Subject: Multiple pack files in .git/objects/pack
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I suspect I may have cancelled a git-repack-script execution, and now
a repo has a redundant pack eating 70MB. I can tell the right one by
running git-repack-script again, and nuking the "older" one, but is
there a reliable way to determine which pack is the correct one?

>From the behaviour of the http transfers, there is a pointer to it somewhere. 

cheers,


martin

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