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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Funny error with git gc...
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:24:19 -0400
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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> if you need a chuckle, like me, you might appreciate this story: in =
one of
>> my repositories, "git gc" dies with
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 unable to open object pack directory: ...: Too many open=
 files
>>
>> turns out that there are a whopping 1088 packs in that repository...
>
> Isn't it a more serious problem than a mere chuckle? =A0How would one
> recover from such a situation (other than "mv .git/objects/pack-*;
> for p in pack-*.pack; do git unpack-objects <$p; done")?

I guess if you have root access, you could increase your file ulimit
(-n) temporarily and then repack.  Of course that's not actually
addressing the root cause of the problem.

Avery