From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "jones.noamle" <lenoam@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gc does not clean up after itself when not enough disk space
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:31:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512D1B8C.9070506@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1uc3njnf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Am 26.02.2013 17:07, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> "jones.noamle" <lenoam@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> # git gc
>> Counting objects: 44626, done.
>> Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (7756/7756), done.
>> fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_uJ0E5b' write error: No
>> space left on device
>
> In general when we encounter an unexpected error, we tend to try
> leaving things as they are so that we can help diagnosing the
> failure. But when you ran out of disk space I would agree that it
> may be sensible to remove a temporary file we didn't manage to write
> out in full.
Ack. I just recently had to do
git gc || rm -f .git/objects/*/tmp_*
as workaround in the nightly housekeeping script on our CI server.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 20:31 UTC|newest]
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2013-02-26 15:38 ` gc does not clean up after itself when not enough disk space jones.noamle
2013-02-26 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-26 20:31 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2013-02-27 0:28 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2013-02-27 5:07 ` Jeff King
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