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Subject: Re: git-repack && git-prune-packed isn't doing it's job anymore?
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"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> $ find .git/objects -type f | grep -v pack | wc -l
>     3297
> $ git-repack && git-prune-packed
> Generating pack...
> Done counting 664 objects.
> Deltifying 664 objects.
>  100% (664/664) done
> Writing 664 objects.
>  100% (664/664) done
> Total 664, written 664 (delta 384), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Pack pack-f38c51a5d5194d6a2f6e711586b9a51980c8d524 created.
> $ find .git/objects -type f | grep -v pack | wc -l
>     2583

The last one would be "git count-objects", but repack packs
things that are reachable from your refs and prune-packed
removes what are in packs, so perhaps these are unreachable
objects?  I'd imagine fsck-objects would say they are dangling.

If that is the case, "git prune" would be the right tool to use.

And this is not something that changed recently.