From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Nelson Subject: Re: git gc / git repack not removing unused objects? Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:53:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 06 14:53:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ndl6T-0006yI-3e for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:53:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755863Ab0BFNxg (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:53:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com ([209.85.219.228]:33489 "EHLO mail-ew0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755762Ab0BFNxf (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:53:35 -0500 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so963477ewy.28 for ; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.93.17 with SMTP id k17mr525485wef.31.1265464413151; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:53:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Jon Nelson wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Jon Nelson wrote: >> > >> >> [Using git 1.6.4.2] >> >> >> >> In one repo I have (136G objects directory, fully packed) I'm having >> >> some trouble. >> >> I've run git-gc --prune=now, git repack -Adf, and so on a half-dozen >> >> times and each time I do so it gets bigger, not smaller. >> > >> > Please tell us more. >> >> I'll tell you whatever I can -- as soon as I know what it is you want. > > I want to know what you did and what results you obtained to lead you to > believe that 'git-gc --prune=now' makes your repository bigger. Last night, the repo size was 153G after removing some commits and objects by way of git filter-branch. I'm using "du -sh" in the .git directory to determine the disk usage. Before: 136G git repack -dAl After: 153G Then, just to make sure of some things, I changed nothing and simply re-ran "git repack -dAl". After: 167G Config: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = true logallrefupdates = true compression = 0 loosecompression = 0 packedGitLimit = 1500M #packedGitWindowSize = 32m [pack] packsizelimit = 256m windowMemory = 128m deltaCacheSize = 1m [gc] threads = 1 packrefs = true [repack] usedeltabaseoffset = true Incorporating the system and global config (git config -l): pack.packsizelimit=2M pack.threads=1 gc.auto=0 gc.autopacklimit=0 core.repositoryformatversion=0 core.filemode=true core.bare=true core.logallrefupdates=true core.compression=0 core.loosecompression=0 core.packedgitlimit=1500M pack.packsizelimit=256m pack.windowmemory=128m pack.deltacachesize=1m gc.threads=1 gc.packrefs=true repack.usedeltabaseoffset=true -- Jon