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Subject: Re: Funny error with git gc...
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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
>
> 	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?  How would one
recover from such a situation (other than "mv .git/objects/pack-*;
for p in pack-*.pack; do git unpack-objects <$p; done")?