From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Post, Mark K" <mark.post@eds.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:21:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717012154.GA27389@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A14AF34CFF8AD44A44891F7C9FF410507E43005@usahm236.amer.corp.eds.com>
"Post, Mark K" <mark.post@eds.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem that just started occurring with git-repack not
> removing the files from $GIT_DIR/objects/*, and therefore not removing
> the directories, since they're not empty. The command I'm using (as the
> git user) is this:
> GIT_DIR=/home/git/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git git-repack -a -d -l
>
> This used to work, but then suddenly stopped working. I ran an strace
> -f -F with this same command, and I don't see any attempt being made to
> unlink the files in $GIT_DIR/objects/*/, but I do see the rmdir commands
> failing because the directories are not empty. All of the files in
> those directories are owned by git:git.
Try running `git-prune-packed` after git-repack. git-repack doesn't
delete the loose objects.
I don't remember git-repack ever doing it either.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 0:44 git-repack not removing files from $GIT_DIR/objects/[00-ff] Post, Mark K
2006-07-17 1:21 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-07-17 1:47 ` Post, Mark K
2006-07-17 1:51 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-07-17 2:48 ` Post, Mark K
2006-07-17 3:26 ` Jeff King
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