# Re: Bug#813084: Background git gc fails, telling me to run git prune, which doesn't help 1 messages from 2016-02-27 to 2016-02-27. Participants: Ben Hutchings. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41556 ## Ben Hutchings, 2016-02-27 22:50 Subject: Re: Bug#813084: Background git gc fails, telling me to run git prune, which doesn't help Message-ID: <1456613404.3098.23.camel@decadent.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1456613404.3098.23.camel%40decadent.org.uk In-Reply-To: ``` Control: forwarded -1 git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 21:05 +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > git keeps trying to do a background gc on my linux repository, but > > fails, reporting this in .git/gc.log: > > > > warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them. > > > > However, after running 'git prune' and 'git gc' (which succeeds), git > > soon tries to a background gc again, resulting in the same error. > > > > Let me know what I can do to get any further diagnostic information. > > Make sure nobody is accessing the repository before you do this: > > git prune --expire=now > > Then you can try "git gc --auto" again to see if it is still > complaining. Report back on git@vger.kernel.org in that case. OK, I've now done that and I get the same failure.  But 'git gc --prune=all' seems to work: $ git gc --prune=all Counting objects: 6479254, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (939232/939232), done. Writing objects: 100% (6479254/6479254), done. Total 6479254 (delta 5503044), reused 6479254 (delta 5503044) Checking connectivity: 6479254, done. I kept a backup of the .git directory so I can run further experiments on that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug ```